Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druxp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!drutx!druxp!mab 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 Article-I.D.: druxp.634 Posted: Thu Oct 18 12:40:28 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 09:29:59 EDT References: <5279@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <528@wjh12.UUCP> <5323@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 9 > 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