2019-07-01 10:44:59 -0500, Peng Yu:
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> 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.
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$ sort --help
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--compress-program=PROG compress temporaries with PROG;
On 2019-07-01 10:44-0500, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
Did you try --compress-program=gzip?
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Thanks. Does this option affect the -m option? Thanks.
On 7/1/19, Ed wrote:
> On 2019-07-01 10:44-0500, Peng Yu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>
> Did you try
