diff --git a/alignment/markdups.sh b/alignment/markdups.sh
index 1ff03f909d7c1b327e5c03b6e81db747386c9e42..9042ac32f3a34f6dc8866caba1afa4f090cbe720 100644
--- a/alignment/markdups.sh
+++ b/alignment/markdups.sh
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ elif [ $algo == 'fgbio_umi' ]
 then
     module load fgbio bwa/intel/0.7.15
     samtools index -@ $SLURM_CPUS_ON_NODE ${sbam}
-    fgbio GroupReadsByUmi --tmp-dir=./ -s identity -i ${sbam} -o ${pair_id}.group.bam --family-size-histogram ${pair_id}.umihist.txt -e 0 -m 0
+    fgbio GroupReadsByUmi -s identity -i ${sbam} -o ${pair_id}.group.bam --family-size-histogram ${pair_id}.umihist.txt -e 0 -m 0
     fgbio CallMolecularConsensusReads -i ${pair_id}.group.bam -p consensus -M 1 -o ${pair_id}.consensus.bam -S ':none:'
     samtools index ${pair_id}.consensus.bam
     samtools fastq -1 ${pair_id}.consensus.R1.fastq -2 ${pair_id}.consensus.R2.fastq ${pair_id}.consensus.bam