On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 27/09/11 16:35, Markus Neteler wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Hi I want to need to create a temporary raster layer - is there >>> a function to create a unique name for this raster? >> >> Check >> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Parallel_GRASS_jobs#The_Grid_Engine_script >> >> > ... >> # generate machine (blade) unique TMP string UNIQUE=`mktemp` >> MYTMP=`basename $UNIQUE` ... >> >> "mktemp" is part of "coreutils" on my Linux machine (maybe use it >> with --dry-run). > > Thanks - that's an idea. But if I see it correctly, you use it to > create a temporary mapset - I would only need a temporary raster - is > there an easier way to achieve that, apart from checking in (one of > the) the directory where the rasters are stored?
The idea was to generate a machine unique name. That can be used for anything then since it is in the $MYTMP variable. Markus _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
