Re: Is there a way to gzip the temp file used by `sort`?

[Stephane Chazelas]

2019-07-01 10:44:59 -0500, Peng Yu:
[...]
> The temp files used by `sort` are not gzipped. Is there a way to use
> gzip to save the space used by the temp files? Thanks.
[...]

$ sort --help
[...]
      --compress-program=PROG  compress temporaries with PROG;
                               decompress them with PROG -d

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Stephane