On 11 December 2015 at 23:16, Josef wells <josefwe...@alumni.utexas.net>
wrote:
>
> Normal operation of parallel seems to use ~/.parallel/tmp in some
> cases this is a long-distance network drive for me.. I'm unclear on
> exactly what goes here, the files mostly look like
> "linelen-<hostname>".
>
> Is there a way to relocate this area?
>From the excellent man-page that comes with GNU Parallel under
"OPTIONS" it says:
--tmpdir dirname
Directory for temporary files. GNU parallel normally
buffers output into temporary files in /tmp. By setting --tmpdir you can
use a different dir for the files. Setting --tmpdir is equivalent to
setting $TMPDIR.
and further down under "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" it says:
$TMPDIR Directory for temporary files. See: --tmpdir.
Regards
Martin M. S. Pedersen
