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<h4 class="subsection">14.2.17 Temporary Files</h4>
<p>Sometimes one needs to write data to a file that is only temporary.
This is most commonly used when an external program launched from
within Octave needs to access data. When Octave exits all temporary
files will be deleted, so this step need not be executed manually.
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— Built-in Function: [<var>fid</var>, <var>name</var>, <var>msg</var>] = <b>mkstemp</b> (<var>template, delete</var>)<var><a name="index-mkstemp-802"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Return the file ID corresponding to a new temporary file with a unique
name created from <var>template</var>. The last six characters of <var>template</var>
must be <code>XXXXXX</code> and these are replaced with a string that makes the
filename unique. The file is then created with mode read/write and
permissions that are system dependent (on GNU/Linux systems, the permissions
will be 0600 for versions of glibc 2.0.7 and later). The file is opened
with the <code>O_EXCL</code><!-- /@w --> flag.
<p>If the optional argument <var>delete</var> is supplied and is true,
the file will be deleted automatically when Octave exits, or when
the function <code>purge_tmp_files</code> is called.
<p>If successful, <var>fid</var> is a valid file ID, <var>name</var> is the name of
the file, and <var>msg</var> is an empty string. Otherwise, <var>fid</var>
is -1, <var>name</var> is empty, and <var>msg</var> contains a system-dependent
error message.
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<p class="noindent"><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="doc_002dtmpfile.html#doc_002dtmpfile">tmpfile</a>, <a href="doc_002dtmpnam.html#doc_002dtmpnam">tmpnam</a>, <a href="doc_002dP_005ftmpdir.html#doc_002dP_005ftmpdir">P_tmpdir</a>.
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— Built-in Function: [<var>fid</var>, <var>msg</var>] = <b>tmpfile</b> ()<var><a name="index-tmpfile-803"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Return the file ID corresponding to a new temporary file with a unique
name. The file is opened in binary read/write (<code>"w+b"</code>) mode.
The file will be deleted automatically when it is closed or when Octave
exits.
<p>If successful, <var>fid</var> is a valid file ID and <var>msg</var> is an empty
string. Otherwise, <var>fid</var> is -1 and <var>msg</var> contains a
system-dependent error message.
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<p class="noindent"><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="doc_002dtmpnam.html#doc_002dtmpnam">tmpnam</a>, <a href="doc_002dmkstemp.html#doc_002dmkstemp">mkstemp</a>, <a href="doc_002dP_005ftmpdir.html#doc_002dP_005ftmpdir">P_tmpdir</a>.
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— Built-in Function: <b>tmpnam</b> (<var>dir, prefix</var>)<var><a name="index-tmpnam-804"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Return a unique temporary file name as a string.
<p>If <var>prefix</var> is omitted, a value of <code>"oct-"</code> is used.
If <var>dir</var> is also omitted, the default directory for temporary files
is used. If <var>dir</var> is provided, it must exist, otherwise the default
directory for temporary files is used. Since the named file is not
opened, by <code>tmpnam</code>, it is possible (though relatively unlikely)
that it will not be available by the time your program attempts to open it.
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<p class="noindent"><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="doc_002dtmpfile.html#doc_002dtmpfile">tmpfile</a>, <a href="doc_002dmkstemp.html#doc_002dmkstemp">mkstemp</a>, <a href="doc_002dP_005ftmpdir.html#doc_002dP_005ftmpdir">P_tmpdir</a>.
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