I am writing a script that uses a temporary directory, and I would like to allow it to read the user’s chosen temporary directory from an environment variable. What environment variable(s) should my script look at?
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I am writing a script that uses a temporary directory, and I would like to allow it to read the user’s chosen temporary directory from an environment variable. What environment variable(s) should my script look at?
Windows: %TEMP%, or %TMP%
Linux: $TMP, $TEMP
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