MKTEMP
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
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.
- -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 slash.
This option is implied if TEMPLATE does not end in X.
- --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
- -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 and Eric Blake.
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/>
Report mktemp translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 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 'mktemp invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- SEE ALSO
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