MKTEMP

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 2021
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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.

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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.