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compress work dir?

 
Jose Vidal
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compress work dir?

Anyone know what directory, utilities like compress and gzip use for temporary work files?
Is it $TMPDIR?
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Alan Riggs
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Re: compress work dir?

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).
Alan Riggs
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Re: compress work dir?

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).
Philip Chan_1
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Re: compress work dir?

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?