I'm testing an app that uses the System temp Directory. Inside of the app, there is some call to a Cocoa function to query this. Is there a way for me to query for this directory name outside of having to write a Cocoa app of my own? Possibly a command that I can issue in Terminal?
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I found this answer great plus it works on Linux platforms too (probably not a huge concern for you, I realise): unix.stackexchange.com/a/84980/68885– Tom SaleebaCommented Oct 22, 2015 at 9:46
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env
Just type this command into Terminal. With zero arguments it'll print the names and values of variables in the environment.
Alternative with a bit more typing:
echo $TMPDIR
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2Thanks. What a weird path - /var/folders/iz/izqn2b5MF-iz9oL0CURH1U+++TI/-Tmp-/– bpapaCommented Nov 13, 2010 at 20:32
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3This is not a good answer, since this env variable points to different directory every time a different process is invoked. It is made to let each process freely write into a "temp" directory, without worrying that it might overwrite (or read by mistake) something another application wrote. Commented Apr 4, 2016 at 10:08
OS X has Python pre-installed, though not necessarily a fresh Python; but this is not cutting-edge stuff.
So:
Open a terminal
cat > hack.py
import tempfile
print tempfile.gettempdir()
^D
python hack.py
answered Nov 12, 2010 at 20:49
