From: Shaw, Ronan (Ronan.Shaw at domain DIGIFONE.COM)
Date: Wed 17 May 2000 - 16:46:07 IST
> > > 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
>
> The shell appears to interpret $$ as an instruction to generate a name
> vim blah.$$
>
> And it opens a file "blah.10241"
>
$$ is a shell variable for the current process id.
It's unique unless you use it somewhere else .... although why you'd do
that....
Don't forget to delete the file later....
-Ronie.
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