On 17 April 2018 at 11:43, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Many people use tmp, tmp2, tmp3 as names. I find those visually too like > real filenames and longer to type than I want. The names I use are 0, 1, > 2, 3. They are short, distinctive, and unreasonable as permanent > filenames.
Why not use mktemp? "man mktemp" for information about templates, suffixes etc. --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
