linux man page for 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.

       -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 slash.  This option is implied if TEMPLATE does not end in X.

       --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

       -p DIR use DIR as a prefix; implies -t [deprecated]

       -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
       Report mktemp bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report mktemp translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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

       The full documentation for mktemp is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and mktemp programs are properly installed at your  site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'mktemp invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.5						   February 2011							 MKTEMP(1)