make temp files?

[Andrew R. Large]

In article <48200010 at hcx1> ldh at hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes:
>
>I was wondering if there is some "readymade" way that a shell can create a
>unique temporary file, as in the C routine "mktemp(XXXXX)".  Thanks!
>
>Leo Hinds

Both csh and sh replace $$ with the current PID.  Using that, you can
create and use a unique tmp file name with(sh):

	file=/tmp/aa$$
	stuff >> $file
	     ...
	rm $file

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