Making a temporary dir for unpacking a zipfile into

Question

I have a script that checks a zipfile containing a number of matching PDF+textfiles. I want to unpack, or somehow read the textfiles from the zipfile, and just pick out some

Answer 1

Another option if running on linux with mktemp and access to the exec function is the following:

This avoids the potential (although unlikely) race issue above and has the same behavior as the tempnam function.