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Saving following script in a file:

cat <<EOF | wc -l
$HOME
abc
$(hostname)
EOF

and executing it gives the following error:

$ ./a.sh 
./a.sh: line 1: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device

My Debian thinks that there is no space left on the device (which is not true, but it's out of our context). However I have a plenty of RAM space. Since my tools (scripts) also refuse to work because of this error, I'm unable to resolve the actual "no space left" issue. What can I do to make my scripts use the RAM for the "heredoc" handling process in order to get them working at least, so that I can move forward to resolve the actual problem by using my tools?

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Point the $TMPDIR variable to some directory that is on a RAM disk/tmpfs, since that's the variable that determines where the shell (at least bash) creates its temporary files.

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Find a mount with the tmpfs filesystem

grep tmpfs /etc/mtab

in my case, one of the lines is

 tmpfs /run/user/1000 tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=808468k,nr_inodes=202117,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

then as @telcoM mentions do

export TMPDIR=/run/user/1000

(or use that for a file, like wc -l $(hostname) >> /run/user/1000/myexample)

BTW, is that $(hostname) just an example or what do you expect from that?

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  • $(hostname) was just an example, I didn't really care its output. BTW, I overcome the problem by deleting some files from /tmp, so I probably will apply your solution next time I encounter the problem (or simulate somehow). I think I'll come across with it again in the near future.
    – ceremcem
    Jun 20 at 7:49

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