Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!rutgers!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: make temp files? Message-ID: <8560@smoke.ARPA> Date: 22 Sep 88 00:35:09 GMT References: <48200010@hcx1> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 7 In article <48200010@hcx1> ldh@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes: >I was wondering if there is some "readymade" way that a shell can create a >unique temporary file, as in the C routine "mktemp(XXXXX)". Thanks! mktemp() does not create a file, it creates a file NAME. A similar shell feature would be /usr/tmp/prefix$$