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Jan 252010
 

Create a temp file in Linux

Answer:

To create a temp file in Linux, you can use the mktemp command

E.g.

# mktemp foo.XXXXXXXXXXX

foo.aAIYdsa5027

mktemp will replace XXXXX... by random characters and create that temp file for you.

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