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! mktemp() does not create a file, it creates a file NAME. A similar shell feature would be /usr/tmp/prefix$$