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Using Temporary Files and Directories in Linux
In this hands-on lab, we will practice working with temporary files and directories. Knowing how and when to use temporary files and directories for transient and temporary storage is a good skill to have as a systems administrator.

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Challenge
Retrieve and Unpack the Archive
- Change to the
/tmp
directory.
cd /tmp
- Use
wget
to retrieve the file.
wget https://github.com/mscjr/LA/raw/master/RH342/sosreport-ip-10-0-1-11-2019-03-22-wxoxhnk.tar.xz
- Unpack the archive.
tar xf sosreport-ip-10-0-1-11-2019-03-22-wxoxhnk.tar.xz
- Change to the
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Challenge
Create a Temporary File from the Directory Listing
- Create a temporary file from a recursive directory listing of the archive folder.
tmp_file=$(mktemp)
ls -R sosreport-ip-10-0-1-11-2019-03-22-wxoxhnk/ >> $tmp_file
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Challenge
Move the `version.txt` File to a More Persistent Temporary Directory
- Move the
version.txt
file to/var/tmp
.
mv sosreport-ip-10-0-1-11-2019-03-22-wxoxhnk/version.txt /var/tmp
- Move the
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