NAME¶

mktemp - Create a temporary file or directory.

SYNOPSIS¶

mktemp [-d|--directory] [-u|--dry-run] [-q|--quiet] [--suffix] [-p ] [--tmpdir] [-t ] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [template]

DESCRIPTION¶

Create a temporary file or directory.

OPTIONS¶

-d, --directory

Make a directory instead of a file

-u, --dry-run

do not create anything; merely print a name (unsafe)

-q, --quiet

Fail silently if an error occurs.

--suffix <SUFFIX>

append SUFFIX to TEMPLATE; SUFFIX must not contain a path separator. This option is implied if TEMPLATE does not end with X.

-p <DIR>

short form of --tmpdir

--tmpdir[=<DIR>]

interpret TEMPLATE relative to DIR; if DIR is not specified, use $TMPDIR ($TMP on windows) 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

Generate a template (using the supplied prefix and TMPDIR (TMP on windows) if set) to create a filename template [deprecated]

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

[template]

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

EXAMPLES¶

Create an empty temporary file and print its absolute path:

mktemp

Use a custom directory if `$TMPDIR` is not set (the default is platform-dependent, but usually `/tmp`):

mktemp -p /path/to/temporary_directory

Use a custom path template (`X`s are replaced with random alphanumeric characters):

mktemp /tmp/example.XXXXXXXX

Use a custom file name template:

mktemp -t example.XXXXXXXX

Create an empty temporary directory and print its absolute path:

mktemp -d

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.