MKTEMP
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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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.
If TEMPLATE is not specified, use tmp.XXXXXXXXXX.
- -d, --directory
-
create a directory, not a file
- -q, --quiet
-
suppress diagnostics about file/dir-creation failure
- -u, --dry-run
-
do not create anything; merely print a name (unsafe)
- --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 even
here, mktemp still creates only the final component.
- -p DIR
-
use DIR as a prefix; implies -t [deprecated]
- -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.
REPORTING BUGS
Report mktemp bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 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)
The full documentation for
mktemp
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
mktemp
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils aqmktemp invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.