/tmp

This thread is for appreciation of the /tmp folder.

When I download something, it'll go into /tmp. If I need it more than once, I'll have to sort it where it belongs, but 95% of the downloads I would have deleted right away anyway (e.g. archives that I extract, PDFs, .deb files, image for a thread - heck I just made this image in Gimp in 10s and of course stored it in /tmp)

When I delete something instead of rm $file, I will mv $file /tmp in case I might get second thoughts.

Check out that odd git repository just to look something up more conveniently or try something out? To /tmp it goes.

It really helps to keep the system tidy. I can just shake my head when I see all those people with their cluttered Desktop or Downloads folder. Those files might as well be deleted, you won't find (or need!) them ever again anyway.

you need to go out and talk to girls user

do girls provide the same kind of oxytocin hit that my tmp folder does?

No I didn't think so faggot

This isn't a girl appreciation thread it's fucking appreciate /tmp folder thread, gtfo with your harpy bloodsucker bullshit

This thread, this board, Sup Forums and in fact - life. It all behaves just like a /tmp folder.

Nothing is permanent.

Indeed, it is very useful.
I just downloaded this thread with wget to my tmp folder.

Ok.

The only topic I can think of for your thread: is your /tmp a tmpfs? What happens if your system crashes, do you lose all that potential data?

If it's not, how do you periodically clean it?

But what to talk aboot? Anything seems banal and boring compared to my unix whizdom.

It's not a tmpfs, that would needlessly consume too much RAM, it's cleared on every boot by systemd-tmpfiles

I don't keep any data on /tmp that I'm not willing to loose - heck I turn off my PC every day just to get rid of all that data!

If I have data that could not be easily downloaded again if the system crashes, I will not put it on /tmp.

Well, thanks for your input. I've run out of /tmp things to talk about.

Would you like to discuss /var?

>oxytocin
are you cuddling with your computer?
>harpy bloodsucker bullshit
this part is just sad

Talk about the wonders of /tmp

>mv $file /tmp
that's what a recycle bin is for, dumb linux users

>$PWD %
tcsh?

Use trash-cli

Can we talk about /opt/ and what people use it for instead? It's a wonderful empty folder just begging to be used.

tmp is nothing more than a loadout where unnecessary shit goes
Lets talk about a place where things that you ACTUALLY USE go: /home/usr
If you need to download an nhentai gallery you put it into /home/usr/photo right away and you can always access it fast from your data manager.
Where would you be without /home/usr? Its vital

Getting rid of RAM disks was a mistake.

Why not /home/usr/Documents/Pictures?

>finish large codebase
>put it into /tmp as a vanitas symbol

What's the point of a Unix-like operating system if you reboot it every day?

user you should alias rm to something like
function move() {
mv $1 /tmp/$1 + (date +%s)
rm -rf $1
}

Don't you mean ~/.trash?

Seems like that would be in bad taste. Even rm -i is taking it too far, in my opinion. If you want that function, you should make a unique function, like rt or something.

Not everyone has to be "normal" at every moment in time. Let user have his /tmp fun.
Heck I'd date him if I were a girl, I think his love for /tmp is kinda cute.

I'd date him if I were a girl(boy), but only because I knew that he would never meet a real one.

How do you keep tmp organized? currently, my downloads folder is basically a giant tmp but since i never restart, everything just starts piling up there.

Not OP but I create a few folders using crontab's @reboot

>Dutch
>French
Do you regret 1830 yet?

What do you mean by that? Show us your crontab.

Friendly reminder
>we all gonna die

...

>First moving, then deleting

Why did you take a picture of text? Also, what does this achieve? Does cron remove the contents of a directory by remaking it?

I put 3rd party stuff that doesn't install from a package manager in there. Jdownloader for example.

tmp folder gets booted every time you perform a restart. if your system decides to reboot you lost all your precious files you decided to keep for later. just make /home/faggot/misc and dump everything in there

>to keep for later
But the whole point of /tmp is to put files in there that you DON'T want to keep for later.

You should go back

Very true. One of the 3 marks of existence in Buddhism is anitya or impermanence.