From: "Vu Pham" <vu at sivell.com> To: "Linux tips and tricks" <linux-users at linux-sxs.org> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 8:15 AM Subject: unique string > To generate a temporary and unique directory name, I use uuidgen for the > unique string, something like tempdir=`uuidgen`;mkdir > /tmp/$tempdir;...;rmdir -r -f /tmp/$tempdir. s/uuidgen/mktemp/