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MKTEMP
Section: User Commands (1) Updated: September 2017 Index
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NAME
mktemp - create a temporary file or directory
SYNOPSIS
mktemp
[ ,OPTION/]... [ ,TEMPLATE/]
DESCRIPTION
Create a temporary file or directory, safely, and print its name.
TEMPLATE must contain at least 3 consecutive 'X's in last component.
If TEMPLATE is not specified, use tmp.XXXXXXXXXX, and --tmpdir is implied.
Files are created u+rw, and directories u+rwx, minus umask restrictions.
- -d, --directory
-
create a directory, not a file
- -u, --dry-run
-
do not create anything; merely print a name (unsafe)
- -q, --quiet
-
suppress diagnostics about file/dir-creation failure
- --suffix=,SUFF/
-
append SUFF to TEMPLATE; SUFF must not contain a slash.
This option is implied if TEMPLATE does not end in X
- -p DIR, --tmpdir[=,DIR/]
-
interpret TEMPLATE relative to DIR; if DIR is not
specified, use $TMPDIR if set, else ,/tmp/. With
this option, TEMPLATE must not be an absolute name;
unlike with -t, TEMPLATE may contain slashes, but
mktemp creates only the final component
- -t
-
interpret TEMPLATE as a single file name component,
relative to a directory: $TMPDIR, if set; else the
directory specified via -p; else ,/tmp/ [deprecated]
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Eric Blake.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: < http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report mktemp translation bugs to < http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later < http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
mkstemp(3), mkdtemp(3), mktemp(3)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/mktemp>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) mktemp invocationaq
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