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From: dberg@cod.NOSC.MIL (David I. Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: make temp files?
Summary: $$
Message-ID: <1226@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 22 Sep 88 03:47:50 GMT
References: <48200010@hcx1>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
Lines: 14

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!
> 
The symbolic variable $$ will take on the value of the process_id 
executing the shell.  I use this all the time to create uniquely named
temporary files; eg. /usr/tmp/$$.

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