use sponge to send irc messages w/o being interrupted

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/bin/return-assignment b/bin/return-assignment
index c504bf6..a2961f2 100755
--- a/bin/return-assignment
+++ b/bin/return-assignment
@@ -213,9 +213,8 @@ if [ "$5" = 'ERROR' ]; then
             sed 's/,$/./'
         fi
         printf '\n'
-      } | tee /dev/stderr > \
-        "${irc_dir}/#archlinux-ports/in"
-        # why do we need tee there in order for the redirection to work???
+      } | \
+        sponge "${irc_dir}/#archlinux-ports/in"
     fi
   fi