mktemp - create a temporary file or directory
mktemp [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE]
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NAME
mktemp - create a temporary file or directory
SYNOPSIS
mktemp [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE]
DESCRIPTION
Create a temporary file or directory, safely, and print its name. TEM-
PLATE 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 restric-
tions.
-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) 2012 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.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Availability | file/gnu-coreutils |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------+
SEE ALSO
mkstemp(3C), mkdtemp(3C), mktemp(3C)
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.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/core-
utils-8.16.tar.xz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/.
GNU coreutils 8.16 March 2012 MKTEMP(1)