Shell Programming and Scripting

Ok in my bash script i have 5 options to create a simple html script. I need to create a temporary file and whatever the user types will be stored in that file using html codes. And then I have another option in which that temporary file will be moved to the public_html directory in which the user gets to name the file like WEB.html.

Im not really sure how to create a temporary file and then move everything from the temporary file to a file.

This is what i have so far

create temp file

Code:

htmlcode=$(mktemp ~/tmp/htmlcode.XXXXXXXXXX)
ls > $htmlcode

and this is what i use to move the users input to the temporary file

Code:

echo "$text" >> ~/tmp/htmlcode.XXXXXXXXXX

but when i do this its creating a temp file and a file called htmlcode. It doesnt store in the temp file only in htmlcode?

Try

Code:

htmlcode=$(mktemp -t htmlcode.XXXXXXXXXX)
...
echo "$text" >> $htmlcode

so this line is to create the temp file? Where is it being created?

Code:

htmlcode=$(mktemp -t htmlcode.XXXXXXXXXX)

and this is to forward the text into the temp file

Code:

echo "$text" >> $htmlcode

It's created in (probably) /tmp - check the man page.

yea its stored in temp, how would i cat the file like

Code:

cat ~/tmp/$WEB

?

Yes (but note that /tmp and ~/tmp are usually not the same thing).

it doesnt work, i tried to add the -> .XXXXXXXXX
didnt work

Code:

cat /tmp/$WEB

its option 2 in my loop, when i enter 2 nothing happens

edit i changed the ;; to break;;

but i get this error

Code:

cat: /tmp//tmp/WEB.DHiVwTnhVc: No such file or directory