17 Apr
2018
17 Apr
'18
9:32 a.m.
| > Many people use tmp, tmp2, tmp3 as names. I find those visually too like | > real filenames and longer to type than I want. The names I use are 0, 1, | > 2, 3. They are short, distinctive, and unreasonable as permanent | > filenames. | | Why not use mktemp? "man mktemp" for information about templates, suffixes etc. Or in your .cshrc or .bashrc something like mkdir -m 700 -p /tmp/me tmp="/tmp/me" export TMPDIR=/tmp/me I'm far too lazy to want to have to remember to clean up after myself. John