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MKTEMP(1)			 User Commands			     MKTEMP(1)

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: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report mktemp translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  ©  2017  Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU
       GPL version 3 or later <http://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
       mkstemp(3), mkdtemp(3), mktemp(3)

       Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/mktemp>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) mktemp invocation'

GNU coreutils 8.28		 October 2017			     MKTEMP(1)

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