User Commands                                           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/>



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     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  redistri-
     bute  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.
































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