I often use the /tmp
directory on my Linux machine for storing temporary files (e.g. PDFs from a site that wants me to download it first etc.) and I often create a directory with my username. But at every startup it (including all files) gets deleted. Now I know I can put it in /var/tmp
, but I want all its contents to be deleted, but for the directory itself to be kept.
So:
tmp
|- me # this should stay
| |- foo1 # this should be deleted...
| |- bar1 # ...and this as well
|- other stuff...
Is there any way to do this? Maybe with permissions or with a special configuration?
Best Answer
One solution would be to use a
@reboot
cron job:Adding this to your crontab with
crontab -e
would make it execute whenever the machine boots up.Or, use
in your shell's startup file.
In either case, you may also want to use
in your shell's startup file if you want to use that directory as the default temporary directory.