make temp files?

[David I. Berg]

In article <48200010 at hcx1>, ldh at hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes:
> 
> I was wondering if there is some "readymade" way that a shell can create a
> unique temporary file, as in the C routine "mktemp(XXXXX)".  Thanks!
> 
The symbolic variable $$ will take on the value of the process_id 
executing the shell.  I use this all the time to create uniquely named
temporary files; eg. /usr/tmp/$$.

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