https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/compress-work-dir/m-p/2445827#M9278 Anyone know what directory, utilities like compress and gzip use for temporary work files?<BR />Is it $TMPDIR?<BR /> Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:07:38 GMT Jose Vidal 2000-09-15T19:07:38Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/compress-work-dir/m-p/2445827#M9278 Anyone know what directory, utilities like compress and gzip use for temporary work files?<BR />Is it $TMPDIR?<BR /> Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:07:38 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/compress-work-dir/m-p/2445827#M9278 Jose Vidal 2000-09-15T19:07:38Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/compress-work-dir/m-p/2445828#M9279 I do not believe they stage temporary files in another directory. They either write directly to the uncompressed/unzipped file or write to standard out (if you secify that option). Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:20:35 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/compress-work-dir/m-p/2445828#M9279 Alan Riggs 2000-09-15T19:20:35Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/compress-work-dir/m-p/2445829#M9280 I do not believe they stage temporary files in another directory. They either write directly to the uncompressed/unzipped file or write to standard out (if you secify that option). Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:23:51 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/compress-work-dir/m-p/2445829#M9280 Alan Riggs 2000-09-15T19:23:51Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/compress-work-dir/m-p/2445830#M9281 I think Alan is correct. To clarify this can't you use glance to watch the gzip process and see what files are being opened? Mon, 18 Sep 2000 03:50:33 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/compress-work-dir/m-p/2445830#M9281 Philip Chan_1 2000-09-18T03:50:33Z