Where is the temporary directory in Linux?

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04:04 Answer 2 (Score 19)
04:55 Answer 3 (Score 11)
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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/332610/w...

Question links:
[an SO question about finding a ]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3106...

Accepted answer links:
[Filesystem Hierarchy Standard]: http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs....
[/tmp : Temporary files]: http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_...
[/var/tmp : Temporary files preserved between system reboots]: http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_...
[The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Environment Variables]: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/969...
[systemd]: https://systemd.io/TEMPORARY_DIRECTORIES/
[/tmp/]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sys.../
[/var/tmp/]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sys.../
[file-hierarchy(7)]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sys...
[systemd-path]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sys...
[FreeBSD]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?quer
[NetBSD]: https://man.netbsd.org/hier.7
[OpenBSD]: https://man.openbsd.org/hier.7
[DragonFly]: https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-ma...

Answer 2 links:
[XDG Base Directory Specification]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/b...

Answer 3 links:
[here]: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3....
[here]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_...

Answer 4 links:
[article on temporary folders]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_f...

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