#mktemp

Version 0.1.3 behavior is documented here. The support record separates local verification from published MoonX behavior; moonx examples use registry releases.

Create one unique temporary file, or a directory with -d/--directory:

moonx cli/mktemp /tmp/moonx.XXXXXX
moonx cli/mktemp -d /tmp/moonx.XXXXXX

Names use the released MoonBit random source and exclusive creation, so collisions are retried before failure; files request mode 0600 and directories 0700, subject to the operating system umask. Owner metadata and Windows permission-bit semantics are not claimed.

The command parses the template once. The final run of X characters must contain at least three, and may precede an inferred suffix (name.XXX.log). --suffix=TEXT instead requires the original template to end in X. A suffix cannot contain a directory separator. Generated names use uniformly selected ASCII letters and digits. Exclusive-create collisions are retried up to 238328 times; failed attempts never overwrite an existing entry.

No operand selects tmp.XXXXXXXXXX under nonempty TMPDIR, then /tmp. An explicit template stays relative to cwd unless a destination option is used. -p DIR/--tmpdir[=DIR] selects a nonempty directory argument before TMPDIR and /tmp, permits existing relative subdirectories and rejects absolute templates. -t always prefers TMPDIR, then -p, then /tmp, and rejects directory components in the template. Bare --tmpdir does not consume the next operand. -q/--quiet suppresses creation/output errors while preserving template and usage diagnostics. If printing a created name fails, removal of that new entry is attempted. Unsafe dry-run -u is not supported. Frozen releases are unchanged.

#Standalone metadata

Standalone --version prints exactly mktemp 0.1.3 followed by one newline. Standalone --help starts with Usage: mktemp, lists both metadata options, and ends with a newline. Both write to stdout, leave stdin unread, and exit with status 0. Exact-version publication and verification remain recorded separately in the support record.

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