mktemp

Create a temporary file or directory. More information: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/mktemp.1.html.

• Create an empty temporary file and print its absolute path:

mktemp

• Use a custom directory (defaults to the output of getconf DARWIN_USER_TEMP_DIR, or /tmp):

mktemp --tmpdir=/path/to/tempdir

• Use a custom path template (Xs are replaced with random alphanumeric characters):

mktemp /tmp/example.XXXXXXXX

• Use a custom file name prefix:

mktemp -t example

• Create an empty temporary directory and print its absolute path:

mktemp --directory