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Using Temp Files With Bash

• Temp files are stored in the /tmp/ directory and will need to be removed upon script completion. Why use a temp file or directory? Because it will make it easier to have a storing place of a file that holds some information you want to be read, or just act as an intermediary file/directory.

#  Documentation
# All temp files need those X's for randomization
# check out `man mktemp` for more details
tmpfile=$(mktemp /tmp/abc-script.XXXXXX)

# <CODE>

rm "$tmpfile"

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