17 Apr
2018
17 Apr
'18
8:48 a.m.
On 17 April 2018 at 11:43, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
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.