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From: mab@druxp.UUCP (BlandMA)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: /tmp vs. /usr/tmp (System V)
Message-ID: <634@druxp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 12:40:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 12:40:28 1984
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Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
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>   The main utility that concerns me is
>   "sort", which can really eat up temp space.

There is an undocumented flag in the System V sort(1) that allows you
to specify the directory where it creates its temp files.
Try "sort -T /new/temp/dir ...".  I don't know if it exists in
other versions of UN*X, and I don't know why it's not documented.

-Alan Bland, ihnp4!druxp!mab, AT&T-ISL Denver