Thanks for the answer.
I am already using the -o option.
The trouble is that while curl is downloading a file, it uses the /tmp dir to store a a tmp file (it uses name like udeUaGAO ...) and it removes this file at the end of the download process.
You can see them with large file..

thx
az

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Da: curl-users [mailto:curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] Per conto di Daniel Stenberg
Inviato: venerdì 27 gennaio 2017 15:20
A: the curl tool <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
Oggetto: Re: A question on curl

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Alessandro Zappa (UBISS) wrote:

> I am using a sun solaris which has a very limited /tmp file system.
> For several reasins I canno't change the /tmp dimension. When I have
> to download a very large file the /tmp beccomes full (due to tmp file
> created while curl is download). Is there a way to change the TMP
> directory used by curl during yhe download process?

curl doesn't use /tmp on its own. You decide where to store download with the -o option or just shell redirect. Or change directory to your preferred download location and use -O (uppercase o).

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