man_mktemp

MKTEMP(1)                                            User Commands                                           MKTEMP(1)

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
              directory 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
       GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report mktemp translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright   ©   2017   Free   Software   Foundation,   Inc.   License  GPLv3+:  GNU  GPL  version  3  or  later
       <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permit‐
       ted by law.

SEE ALSO
       mkstemp(3), mkdtemp(3), mktemp(3)

       Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/mktemp>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) mktemp invocation'

GNU coreutils 8.29                                   December 2017                                           MKTEMP(1)