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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.
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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!

mktemp() does not create a file, it creates a file NAME.
A similar shell feature would be
	/usr/tmp/prefix$$