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From: twb@hoqax.UUCP (T.W. Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: make temp files?
Message-ID: <1833@hoqax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 88 00:23:01 GMT
References: <48200010@hcx1>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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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!
> Leo Hinds

The shell variable "$" contains the current process number.
For example:
	>TEMP$$
would create a file named
	TEMP1234
if the current process was number 1234.

DISCLAIMER: I suppose there are shells which don't provide this.
Tom.