removetemp

NAME

SYNOPSIS

removetemp [ -s scriptname ] [ -q ] -d tempdir

AVAILABILITY

DESCRIPTION

Directories not created by maketemp will not be removed by the removetemp command.

Use the listtemp(3) command to list the state of temporary directories created by maketemp.

OPTIONS

-h

usage message.

-s scriptname

scriptname in message output of removetemp.

-q

quiet, no message output.

-d tempdir

temporary directory as returned by the maketemp command.

See section EXAMPLES for additional information.

ENVIRONMENT

EXIT STATUS

0

no error.

1

cannot remove specified temporary directory.

2

directory not removed because it was not created using the maketemp(3) command.

3

specified temporary directory does not exist.

4

usage message listed.

5

cannot access the specified temporary directory.

FILES

<tempdir>/

temporary directory to be removed.

<tempdir>/.maketemp.flagfile

flagfile containing the state information about the command that created the temporary directory. This file is created by the maketemp(3) command while creating the temporary directory and read by removetemp(3) and listtemp(3).

EXAMPLES

1) remove a tempdir created in '/tmp':

[ /root ]
[ root@acme001 ][-sh]: maketemp -d /tmp/.example
/tmp/.example.3430.2Hpt0D/

[ /root ]
[ root@acme001 ][-sh]: removetemp -d /tmp/.example.3430.2Hpt0D/

2) create/use/remove a tempdir in '/tmp' in a script:

#!/bin/sh

Scriptname=`basename $0`
Tmp=`maketemp -s $Scriptname -d /tmp/.$Scriptname` || exit 11

:
:

cat /etc/passwd | sort > ${Tmp}sorted_passwd

:
:

removetemp -q -d ${Tmp}

SEE ALSO

NOTES

BUGS

Cleanup crontab entry that would cause the behaviour described:

#
# delete all files in /tmp which are older than one week
#
00 1 * * * find /tmp \( -mtime +7 -a -type f \) -exec /bin/rm {} \;

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

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