Re: Temp file location

[Josef wells]

That also says that this is for buffering output files, that is not what I'm seeing g in ~/.parallel

Josef

On Dec 11, 2015 5:42 PM, "Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen" <traxplayer@gmail.com> wrote:

On 11 December 2015 at 23:16, Josef wells <Josefwells@alumni.utexas.net> wrote:
>
> Normal operation of parallel seems to use ~/.parallel/tmp in some
> cases this is a long-distance network drive for me.. I'm unclear on
> exactly what goes here, the files mostly look like
> "linelen-<hostname>".
>
> Is there a way to relocate this area?


From the excellent man-page that comes with GNU Parallel under

"OPTIONS" it says:

       --tmpdir dirname

                Directory for temporary files. GNU parallel normally buffers output into temporary files in /tmp. By setting --tmpdir you can use a different dir for the files. Setting --tmpdir is equivalent to setting $TMPDIR.

and further down under "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" it says:

       $TMPDIR  Directory for temporary files. See: --tmpdir.

Regards

Martin M. S. Pedersen