Temporary Workind Directory (twd) creates a temporary directory and executes a
command into it. Since the implementation uses execve(2) to replace the
current process with the provided command, the temporary directory is not
removed afterward. See chain
loading for further information
about the design choice.
go get github.com/francescomari/twd
twd [-print] [-root root] [-prefix prefix] command...
If -print is specified, the path to the temporary directory is printed on the
standard output before executing the command. root and prefix are used when
creating the temporary directory. If specified, the temporary directory will be
created under root. If -root is not specified, the default system directory
for temporary files is used. prefix is a prefix for the name of the temporary
directory. If -prefix is not specified, the default prefix of twd- is used.
The following command shows how to run touch test.txt in a temporary
directory. The directory will be crated in the current directory with a prefix
of whatever.
$ twd -root . -prefix whatever touch test.txt
$ ls whatever*
test.txt
The following command shows how to run touch test.txt in a temporary directory
created in the default system directory for temporary files and with the default
prefix. The path to the temporary folder is printed before the command is
executed.
$ twd -print touch test.txt
/var/folders/s5/337j21rj3m7cws2bql5m8_rc0000gp/T/twd-520522576
$ ls /var/folders/s5/337j21rj3m7cws2bql5m8_rc0000gp/T/twd-520522576
test.txt
This software is released under the MIT license.