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 'mktemp invocation' | |
