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<html> <head> <title>mktemp</title> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="mktemp"> </head> <body BGCOLOR="#ffffff" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#0000ff" ALINK="#0000ff" TEXT="#000000"> <center> <h1><b>mktemp</b></h1></center> <PRE> <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/MKTEMP">MKTEMP(1)</A></STRONG> User Commands <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/MKTEMP">MKTEMP(1)</A></STRONG> NAME mktemp - create a temporary file or directory SYNOPSIS mktemp [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE] DESCRIPTION Create a temporary file or directory, safely, and print its name. TEM- PLATE 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 restric- tions. -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/> Report mktemp translation bugs to <https://translationpro- ject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2018 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. SEE ALSO <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/mkstemp">mkstemp(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/mkdtemp">mkdtemp(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/mktemp">mktemp(3)</A></STRONG> Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/mktemp> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) mktemp invocation' GNU coreutils 8.30 September 2019 <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/MKTEMP">MKTEMP(1)</A></STRONG></PRE> <center> <h6>Man Pages Copyright Respective Owners. Site Copyright (C) 1994 - 2025 <a href="http://www.he.net">Hurricane Electric</a>. All Rights Reserved.</h6></center> </body> </html>