New Year’s Resolution: Use /tmp

For a lot of small scripting projects and everyday stuff I find myself redirecting the output of some command to a file (usually called tmp/tmp?) for different purposes. This is perfectly fine. I know that if I come across a file called tmp it’s usually safe to delete, but having a bunch of “tmp” files left lying around undeleted just adds to the clutter in my $HOME. (Not to mention all the wasted KB’s of hard disk space ) Then it occurred to me that the sole reason for /tmp’s existence is being a place to store temporary files. So this year one of my New Years resolutions is to keep all these “tmp” files in /tmp where they belong.