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Improve docs on SCRATCHDIR #70

@janxkoci

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@janxkoci

Some formulations in the docs describing the use of SCRATCHDIR are misleading, e.g.:

The last two lines can be piped together.
```bash
cp h2o.out $DATADIR/ || export CLEAN_SCRATCH=false
```

It is misleading / incomplete, because the suggested code does not call clean_scratch, so the scratch is not actually cleaned. I believe the line should instead read:

cp h2o.out $DATADIR/ || export CLEAN_SCRATCH=false; clean_scratch

A simpler alternative suggested by support staff by email could be included in the docs too:

cp h2o.out $DATADIR/ && clean_scratch

This cleans scratch only if the copy command succeeds.

Similar examples could be also added to the dedicated page on SCRATCHDIR, which currently looks very incomplete (to a user searching information about using scratch): https://docs.metacentrum.cz/en/docs/computing/infrastructure/scratch-storages

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