maybe use ${TMPDIR} ?

[wwwutz]

this bee file leaves a trail of 77 GB on all cluster nodes forever on the root system disk.

root:dirtyfork:/scratch/local/# du -hs linux-5.*
7.4G    linux-5.10.24-375.x86_64
7.4G    linux-5.10.47-390.x86_64
7.4G    linux-5.10.70-403.x86_64
7.5G    linux-5.10.81-412.x86_64
7.5G    linux-5.10.82-414.x86_64
7.5G    linux-5.10.92-421.x86_64
6.5G    linux-5.4.39-334.x86_64
6.1G    linux-5.4.57-340.x86_64
6.1G    linux-5.4.72-349.x86_64
6.2G    linux-5.4.97-368.x86_64