Problem in making a script

[Nils Kassube]

amritpal pathak wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> > > TEMP=$(mktemp)
> > 
> > Make a temporary file which doesn't conflict with existing files.
> > 
>      means temporary file with same name as original?

No, it is a file in /tmp created by mktemp with an arbitrary filename 
that did not yet exist. The filename is stored in the variable TEMP. We 
don't care about the actual file name because we handle everything with 
the variable instead. At the end the temp file is moved to the original 
file name anyway.


Nils