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Reputation: 10556

Creating temporary directories with suffixes

I'd like to create a temporary of the form /tmp/prefix.XXXXXX.suffix, however the only function I know of to create temporary directories is mkdtemp which requires the XXXXXX characters to appear at the end of the template. Is there another way to create a temporary directory that allows this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 199

Answers (2)

madrag
madrag

Reputation: 1771

mkdir /tmp/prefix.`date +%s`.suffix

Upvotes: 1

Gevork Palyan
Gevork Palyan

Reputation: 46

This script basically creates a random six character string and uses that to make a directory. 

#!/bin/bash
characters=( 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B  C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z );
charactersLength=${#characters[@]};
randomString="";
for i in `seq 6`;
do
    randomNumber=$(( $RANDOM % $charactersLength ));
    randomString=$randomString${characters[randomNumber]};
done
mkdir "/tmp/prefix."$randomString".suffix";

Upvotes: 0

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