[aklug] Re: Self-extracting Archive

>
> mktemp will work (i.e. , create the directory you told it to create) if you
> do not use this feature
>
How odd -- mktemp will happily create your non-unique temporary
file/directory *as long as it does not already exist.* If the file or dir
does exist, mktemp hangs indefinitely, which is probably what caused Chris'
original script to hang.

Note that all of these examples were hung until I hit ^C:

$ ls selfextract.1029349304
selfextract.1029349304
$ mktemp -d selfextract.1029349304
^C
$ mktemp -d /tmp/selfextract.1029349304
^C
$ mktemp -p /tmp -d selfextract.1029349304
^C
$ mktemp -p /tmp selfextract.1029349304
^C
$ mktemp selfextract.1029349304
^C
$

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Marc Grober <marc@interak.com> wrote:

> some apples and oranges there....
> all -p does is add a prefix, and it is not universally
> available.
> mktemp -d /tmp/selfextract.XXXXXX
> is going to do the same thing as
> mktemp -p /tmp -d selfextract.XXXXXX
> I believe.....
>
> the XXXX is the reason to use mktemp in one sense, as it
> uses the XXXXXs for a template, but mktemp will work (i.e. ,
> create the directory you told it to create) if you do not
> use this feature.
>
> Christopher Howard wrote:
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> > Matt Grimm wrote:
> >> Chris,
> >>
> >> You are trying to create a temporary directory name, but aren't giving
> >> mktemp anyplace to insert random data. Try this instead:
> >>
> >> mktemp -p /tmp -d selfextract.XXXXXXXXXX
> >>
> >
> > Ah, yes... that fixed the problem.
> >
> > I'm going to go change my name now.
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