[GTALUG] suggestion: naming temp files

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh at mimosa.com
Tue Apr 17 14:50:15 EDT 2018


| From: Val Kulkov via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| Why not use mktemp? "man mktemp" for information about templates, suffixes etc.

That's what one should do in scripts.  It's part of making scripts
bullet-proof.  It's funny how tricky it is to get this right (race
conditions, etc.).

I'm sorry that I didn't make it clear that I use my naming convention
on the command line (and from my text editor, etc.).  Not in
scripting.


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