MKTEMP(1)
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 (C) 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.