Section: User Commands (1)Updated: February 2011Local indexUp
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]