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today i was viewing a video in youtube
as u all know videos are temporarily saved in the temp folder in widows
(eg C:\Documents And Settings\<home directory>\temp\<youtube_temp_video_file>)
my question is
in linux while i watch online video streaming it gets temporarily saved in some kind of temporary directory....
where is that folder situated???
Usually in /tmp. While the video is playing, it will be saved as /tmp/FlashXXXXXX, where XXXXXX is a random string. Once you close the web page the temporary file has gone.
More generally, Linux systems use /tmp, which is symlinked to /usr/tmp/, for storing temporary files that can be safely cleared when the system is rebooted. /var/tmp is used for temporary files that must persist between reboots (but may still be safely deleted if they are not accessed for a period of time).
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