/tmp vs. /usr/tmp (System V)
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Tue Oct 23 04:16:15 AEST 1984
> 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.
You're sure it's not documented? It *is* documented in V7! Talk about
breaking the software, now USG is breaking the documentation...
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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