MKV(1) General Commands Manual MKV(1) NAME mkv -- create and optionally remove a really temporary directory SYNOPSIS mkv dircomp [file...] mkv -h | -V DESCRIPTION The mkv utility is meant to create a really, really temporary directory and then take care of removing it so that you don't have to :) It examines sev- eral environment variables to determine where this directory should be placed, then creates it, optionally moves some files into it, starts a new shell so you can do your work there, and finally asks you if the directory should be removed. Options: -h Display a usage message and exit. -V Display program version information and exit. FIXME: write some more. RETURN VALUES The mkv utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. ENVIRONMENT In its operation, the mkv utility checks for the presence of several sets of environment variables: * To determine the name of the currently logged-in user, mkv tests for non-zero strings the USER and LOGNAME environment variables and the output of the whoami(1) command. * To determine the user's home directory, mkv checks in order the following paths: ~, HOME, /home/username, /home/USER, /home/LOGNAME. The first of those that signifies a writeable di- rectory is used. * To determine the path to the temporary directory to use, mkv checks in order the following paths: TEMPDIR, TEMP, TMP, HOME/tmp, /var/tmp, /tmp. The first of those that signifies a writeable di- rectory is used. * To determine which shell to execute in the temporary directory, mkv checks in order the following paths: SHELL, /bin/sh. The first of those that signifies an executable file is used. FILES FIXME: write me up. EXAMPLES FIXME: write me up. SEE ALSO FIXME: write me up. HISTORY The mkv utility was written by Peter Pentchev in 2010. AUTHORS Peter Penchev <roam@ringlet.net> BUGS This manual page is woefully incomplete :) TODO * Add the -d basedir option to supplement the MKV_BASE environment variable. * Add the -y and -n options to specify if the volatile directory should be removed. * Add the -v option for verbose operation. * As noted in the Makefile, add a config file specifying the default basedir; maybe also look in the user's home directory? * As noted in the Makefile, add an init script creating the system- wide basedir at startup and cleaning it up at shutdown. FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly March 19, 2010 MKV(1)
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