That also says that this is for buffering output files, that is not what I'm seeing g in ~/.parallel
Josef On Dec 11, 2015 5:42 PM, "Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen" < traxpla...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
