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My generic question is: When I'm using a pipe line series of commands |
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do I use up more/less space than doing things in sequence? |
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For example, I have a development Gentoo VM that has a hard drive that |
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is too small... I wanted to move a database off of that onto another |
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machine but when I tried the following I filled my partition and 'evil |
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things' happened... |
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mysqldump blah... |
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gzip blah... |
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In this specific case I added another virtual drive, mounted that and |
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went on with life but I'm curious if I could have gotten away with the |
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pipe line instead. Will doing something like this still use "twice" |
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the space? |
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mysqldump | gzip > file.sql.gz |
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OR going back to my generic question if I pipe line like "type | sort |
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| unique > output" does that only use 1x or 3x the disk space? |
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Thanks in advance! |
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Matt |
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P.S. If the answer is "it depends" how do know what it depends on? |
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