My generic question is: When I'm using a pipe line series of commands do I use up more/less space than doing things in sequence?
For example, I have a development Gentoo VM that has a hard drive that is too small... I wanted to move a database off of that onto another machine but when I tried the following I filled my partition and 'evil things' happened... mysqldump blah... gzip blah... In this specific case I added another virtual drive, mounted that and went on with life but I'm curious if I could have gotten away with the pipe line instead. Will doing something like this still use "twice" the space? mysqldump | gzip > file.sql.gz OR going back to my generic question if I pipe line like "type | sort | unique > output" does that only use 1x or 3x the disk space? Thanks in advance! Matt P.S. If the answer is "it depends" how do know what it depends on?
