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MKTEMP(1) | User Commands | MKTEMP(1) |
NAME¶
mktemp - create a temporary file or directorySYNOPSIS¶
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 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.orgCOPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.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'
September 2011 | GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb |