Questions tagged [mktemp]
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Why creating files in /dev/shm is not faster than creating files in /tmp?
Let's say I have two bash files. The first one is called diskFile.bash:
for i in {1..10000}
do
file=$(mktemp)
cat > $file <<- "SIGN"
"Hello World"
SIGN
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How to safely create file in bash [duplicate]
I have a script that creates a temporary file as a flag to guard against the script being run simultaneously. Currently it uses tempfile, e.g.
if ! tempfile -n /tmp/updating > /dev/null; then
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mkstemp failing with RHEL 8 OS non-root user
I have small script which creates a tmp files using mkstemp. My script was created using root user , but if I logged in as someother user other than root then my scripts runs but msktemp fails and ...
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Is there some interactive analogue of `mktemp` that helps to organize throw-away directories?
I often want a temporary directly where I can unpack some archive (or create a temporary project), see around some files. It is unpredictable in advance for how much time a particular directory may be ...
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How to create a temporary file that has "normal" permissions?
In a build script I want to create a temporary file that has a unique generated name, then write some data to it, and then rename that file to its final name (the reason for this procedure is that I ...
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mktemp creates file in pwd rather than in /tmp
Previously mktemp used to create files in /tmp. Today I noticed that mktemp is creating file in $PWD rather than in /tmp?
Did I change something inadvertently? Any suggestions to fix this?
Note:
I ...
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Using mktemp in makefile
I want to create a temporary file and pipe some text into it using a makefile.
In bash, I can create a temp file and pipe text into it like so:
temp_file=$(mktemp)
echo "text goes into file" ...
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Why is there no mktemp command in POSIX?
One of the most common things shell scripts need to do is to create and manipulate temporary files. Doing so safely is a pain, since you need to avoid name clashes, avoid race conditions, make sure ...
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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....
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