Manual: gnumktemp

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NAME
       mktemp - create a temporary file or directory

SYNOPSIS
       mktemp [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE]

DESCRIPTION
       Create  a temporary file or directory, safely, and print its name.  TEMPLATE 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 restrictions.

       -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  direc‐
	      tory 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
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SEE ALSO
       mkstemp(3), mkdtemp(3), mktemp(3)

       Full documentation 
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) mktemp invocation'

       Packaged by Ubuntu (9.7-3ubuntu2)
       Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

GNU coreutils 9.7					January 2026						   MKTEMP(1)