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/tmp: Temporary Directories

/tmp is a necessary ``temporary" directory. It is available to all users to read from and write into. But, along with /var/tmp and /usr/tmp, it is mostly used by compilers and by UNIX as temporary storage for intermediate files.



Claude Cantin 2010-10-24