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MKV(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual MKV(1)

mkv
create and optionally remove a really temporary directory

mkv dircomp [file...]

mkv -h | -V

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 several 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:

Display a usage message and exit.
Display program version information and exit.

FIXME: write some more.

The mkv utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

In its operation, the mkv utility checks for the presence of several sets of environment variables:
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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.
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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 directory is used.
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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 directory is used.
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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.

FIXME: write me up.

FIXME: write me up.

FIXME: write me up.

The mkv utility was written by Peter Pentchev in 2010.

Peter Penchev ⟨roam@ringlet.net⟩

This manual page is woefully incomplete :)

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Add the -d basedir option to supplement the MKV_BASE environment variable.
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Add the -y and -n options to specify if the volatile directory should be removed.
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Add the -v option for verbose operation.
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As noted in the Makefile, add a config file specifying the default basedir; maybe also look in the user's home directory?
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As noted in the Makefile, add an init script creating the system-wide basedir at startup and cleaning it up at shutdown.
March 19, 2010 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE

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