Specifying tmp for tar

Fri Aug 31 21:48:03 UTC 2007

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I have a 2 GB bz2 archive that unzips to over 10 GB (wikipedia dump).
> Although I have over 50 GB free in /home, / has only about 8 GB free.
> Thus, as tar uses /tmp, the / filesystem fills up and I cannot
> continue. How can I specify a tmp directory for tar in my home
> directory? Note that man tar makes no mention of a tmp option.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
Dumb question - does it help to create a /tmp directory in your home
directory and run "export TMP=$home/tmp"? (I don't remember if bzip2
and tar honor TMP.)

Mikkel
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