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Is it possible to create a temporary file that will autodelete after a specific time that it's not read by any other program?
I'd like to create a temporary file that will be read by multiple scripts after its creation, but I don't have an easy way of monitoring when the last script finishes reading this temporary file to ...
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How to make a temporary file in RAM?
I have a script that will pipe its output to |tee scriptnameYYMMDD.txt. After each cycle of the for loop in which the output is generated, I'll be reversing the file contents with tac ...
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Wrapper command that runs program in temporary directory and deletes it after execution [duplicate]
I want to write a command that:
takes another command as its arguments
does a 'cd' to a temporary folder
executes the command passed in the arguments
removes the temporary folder afterwards
Something ...
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Which folder should I write to for my intermediate files, as a dev?
I'm starting to write a few bash scripts for my project and they need some intermediate files or variables to be written.
I want to know which folders can I be sure of having access to when someone ...
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