On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, Michael Stillwell wrote: > I occasionally need to do various tasks that require the creation of a > temporary directory, something like: > > $ mkdir tmp > $ cd tmp > $ unzip ../foo.zip > $ # do something to the contents of tmp > $ cd .. > $ rm -rf tmp > > What's the idiomatic fish way of creating the directory (with a random, > unique name) and ensuring it's deleted? Do I need to dirty my hands with > /usr/bin/mktemp??
fish internally uses `mktemp -d` and I would recommend it. You do have to be careful about cleanup. https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/2828 details some proposed enhancements which would make this easier. David Adam zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
