1998-10-13-00:41:04 Pavel Machek:
> [...] until someone invents safe & portable way of how to work
> with temporary files from shell.
>
> (Actually, is this safe? It might be safe & portable, unfortunately,
> it is also slow & ugly)
>
> TMPDIR=/tmp/mctmpdir.$$
> mkdir $TMPDIR || exit 0
> cd $TMPDIR
> do_something > $TMPDIR/file
> rm $TMPDIR/file
> rmdir $TMPDIR
If I were doing something like this, I'd probably code
progname=`basename $0`
die(){ echo "$progname: $*">&2; exit 1; }
umask 077
tmp=/tmp/$progname.$$
trap "rm -rf $tmp" 0
mkdir $tmp || die "can't mkdir $tmp"
# use $tmp/whatever, $tmp/whateverelse for tmp files
-Bennett
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