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ray wrote:
> was updating some of my scripts yesterday... noticed a lack of a
> variable for TEMP or TMP or tmp or temp... I know I can use /tmp/ but in
> windows I've gotten used to using %temp% being "just there" as an
> envvar... what do you guys do? Assume /tmp/ is there? create a ~/tmp/
> as needed?

Well, first of all, /tmp is /required/ to be there. It's job as a
directory is to be the host to temporary files from any user process.
/tmp exists, or your system is as broken as WinXP without a %SYSTEM%
directory. The tools and functions that manipulate temporary files do so
in /tmp (but can be overridden to do so in some other directory).

Secondly, while the environment variable $TMP or $TEMP isn't standard,
there's nothing stopping you from setting up one:
echo 'export TMP=/tmp' >>/etc/profile
echo 'export TEMP=/tmp' >>/etc/profile
or
echo 'export TMP=/tmp' >>~/.profile
echo 'export TEMP=/tmp' >>~/.profile

HTH
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Lew Pitcher, IT Specialist, Enterprise Data Systems
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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