Questions tagged [mktemp]
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mktemp on macOS not honouring $TMPDIR
I've noticed this before, but it was brought up again as I was answering "How to move directory into a directory with the same name?":
The mktemp utility on macOS does not behave the same as the ...
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Why is mktemp -u considered “unsafe”?
I read the --help text for mktemp recently (the man page wasn't available) and came upon this:
-u, --dry-run do not create anything; merely print a name (unsafe)
Why is this "unsafe"? Is ...
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Deleting temporary direction via trap
I have a script which looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
set -e
tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)
pushd $tmpdir
trap 'popd && rm -rf $tmpdir' EXIT
# Business logic which may succeed or fail...
/bin/false
...
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Is there a programmatical difference between directories created with mktemp -d or mkdir?
I try to understand Stephen Kitt's answer to this question where he created a temporary directory with the following code:
#!/bin/bash
scripttmp=$(mktemp -d) # Create a temporary directory (these ...
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Is it OK to overwrite a file created by mktemp?
I'd like to copy a file to a temporary location.
I'd like to make sure I'm not overwriting anything important, and that I know the location of the file while the script is running.
#!/bin/bash
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Can a script unmount the volume containing itself?
I have a computer with a hard drive mounted read-only. I am running a script from a flash drive. I would like the script to be able to unmount the flash drive, but this can't be performed as the ...
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`mktemp -d` followed by `pushd` works fine on command line, but not when in a script
If I paste these lines into a command prompt on Debian...
DIR=$(mktemp -d -t bbbrtc.XXXXXX) || exit 1
echo "tmpdir = $DIR"
cd "$DIR"
They make a new temp directory, print the directory name, and ...
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Improving mktemp
I am wondering how to best improve on mktemp for use with encrypted containers or file systems.
The issue that I am dealing with is that I would like my shell scripts to store temporary files inside ...
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How to create multiple files/directories with randomized names?
I'm trying to create some files that has different names and with different extensions. Let say I want to create for example 3 files with following name and extension:
File001.000
File002.001
File003....
