[GTALUG] suggestion: naming temp files
John Sellens
jsellens at syonex.com
Tue Apr 17 12:32:47 EDT 2018
| > Many people use tmp, tmp2, tmp3 as names. I find those visually too like
| > real filenames and longer to type than I want. The names I use are 0, 1,
| > 2, 3. They are short, distinctive, and unreasonable as permanent
| > filenames.
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| Why not use mktemp? "man mktemp" for information about templates, suffixes etc.
Or in your .cshrc or .bashrc something like
mkdir -m 700 -p /tmp/me
tmp="/tmp/me"
export TMPDIR=/tmp/me
I'm far too lazy to want to have to remember to clean up after myself.
John
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