/tmp vs. /usr/tmp (System V)

[BlandMA]

>   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