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 a slash. This option is implied if TEMPLATE does not end in X
-p DIR, --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
-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
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Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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)Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/mktemp> or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) mktemp invocation\(aq