[ILUG] set watch(..) under bash

[bobb at redbrick.dcu.ie]

Gav hath declared on Wednesday the 17 day of May 2000  :-:
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> On Tue, 16 May 2000, McDaid, Aaron wrote:
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> <blahblahsnipblah>
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> > Is there an easy way with the bash to get
> > a temporary (ie. unique) filename. I don't
> > want my prog to delete files called "new"
> > and "old" that may already exist
> 
> man mktemp
> 
> its a bit odd but the examples are fine i think
 
The shell appears to interpret $$ as an instruction to generate a name
vim blah.$$

And it opens a file "blah.10241"

- bobb