Making Temporary Directory

MidtownMike · 08-18-2003, 11:03 AM

Its pretty straight forward quetion. How do i go about making a temporary directory? any insight would be delightful

Mathieu · 08-18-2003, 11:07 AM

If you want to make a directory, you can use the mkdir command.

But what exactly do you mean by temporary directory ?

unSpawn · 08-18-2003, 11:36 AM

Use "mktemp". See "man mktemp" for more.

If you want to create randomness yourself you could use any of
"dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2>/dev/null|md5sum|cut -d " " -f 1" or
"openssl rand 100000)$$ | sha1sum | tr -d [a-z-" "]" or
"perl -e 'srand; printf int(rand(1000000))'".