Create a temporary file or directory. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/mktemp.
mktemp
$TMPDIR
, or /tmp
):mktemp --tmpdir=/path/to/tempdir
X
s are replaced with random alphanumeric characters):mktemp /tmp/example.XXXXXXXX
mktemp -t example.XXXXXXXX
mktemp --suffix .ext
mktemp --directory