Section 1 · User commands

mktemp.1

Package: coreutils-common

MKTEMP

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
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SEE ALSO

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. Files are created u+rw, and directories u+rwx, minus umask restrictions. **
−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 a slash. This option is implied if TEMPLATE does not end in X

−p DIR, −−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


	−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

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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.