Re: Temp file location

[Josef wells]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Josef wells
<Josefwells@alumni.utexas.net> wrote:
>
> On Dec 11, 2015 19:33, "Josef wells" <Josefwells@alumni.utexas.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Dec 11, 2015 19:19, "Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen"
>> <traxplayer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 12 December 2015 at 00:47, Josef wells <Josefwells@alumni.utexas.net>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> That also says that this is for buffering output files, that is not
>> >> what I'm seeing g in ~/.parallel
>> >>
>> >> Josef
>> >
>> > Please answer below and not top-post then it is easier to follow the
>> > discussion.
>> >
>> > linelen-<hostname> is something with the maximum length of the
>> > command-line on the remote-hosts.
>> > These files should be small so it should be ok if they are located on a
>> > network share.
>> >
>> > Are you using -X or -m ?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Martin
>>
>> Not using -m/-X..  Called program doesn't support multiple args in that
>> way.
>>
>> Using lsf to batch ~1000 jobs, each one, in is calling parallel to do git
>> clones on that machines local disk.  These machines are far/slow to my ~.
>>
>> Josef
>
> Maybe if I give:
> --max-line-length-allowed foo
>
> It will not create/check these files.  I'll give it a try.
>
> Josef

I should stop thinking about this tonight, since that option clearly
doesn't do what I imagined only minutes ago.

Any suggestions?  I tried setting $HOME to something else, but it
doesn't seem to propagate through the various shells I'm calling.

Josef