How to sort a file in-place

Question

When we use sort file command, the file shows its contents in a sorted way what if I don\'t want to get any-kind of output but a sorted file?

Answer 1

sort file | sponge file

This is in the following Fedora package:

moreutils : Additional unix utilities
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/sponge