May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Temporary file naming and random numbers
Shell scripts often need to store temporary data. The most suitable location to do this is /tmp (which will be cleaned out by the system on reboot). There are two methods to generate standard filenames for temporary data.