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mktemp

Usage: mktemp [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE]

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

Example

By default create the directory in the tmp folder and return de path

mktemp -d
/tmp/tmp.CxYovCveam  #output

If you want open the path in the same sentence

cd $(mktemp -d)

To create in the directory

mktemp -p .