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- From: ben@bailey.UUCP (Ben Bailey)
- Subject: TMPDIR for sort?
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Date: 27 Jul 92 23:12:42 GMT
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- Message-ID: <5251208@bailey.UUCP>
- Organization: Ben Bailey's Home..Tampa Fl.
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- Is it possible to get 'sort' to use the default TMPDIR environment
- variable instead of the /tmp/sort* and other directories? I realize
- that sort -T can force it, but it would be nice if the default could
- point to a rather large ramdisk device that's just sitting here.
-
- Ben
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