Hard drive space and /tmp?

I come from a linux background and I know that things chached do get stored on your computer. I have an old iBook I use to watch a lot of streaming videos on (youtube, dailymotion) and after a while it does fill up my hdd. (It's almost full to begin with)
If I log out and in it frees up space because It deleted the cache. I want to know where all that stuff is stored so I can delete it manually with a script.
Is it in /tmp? Also, I use firefox if that matters.

I would suggest that you use Firefox's clear cache feature to do this sort of task.
Some things are stored under /tmp, but most of the time you'll be deleting from /Library/Caches or ~/Library/Caches. Firefox is under ~/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/profile_name/.

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Something is using up all my hard drive space and is under 'other' on about this mac..
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