[GRASS-user] temporary layer creation

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 27/09/11 16:35, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi I want to need to create a temporary raster layer - is there
>> a function to create a unique name for this raster?
> 
> Check 
> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Parallel_GRASS_jobs#The_Grid_Engine_script
>
> 
...
> # generate machine (blade) unique TMP string UNIQUE=`mktemp` 
> MYTMP=`basename $UNIQUE` ...
> 
> "mktemp" is part of "coreutils" on my Linux machine (maybe use it
> with --dry-run).

Thanks - that's an idea. But if I see it correctly, you use it to
create a temporary mapset - I would only need a temporary raster - is
there an easier way to achieve that, apart from checking in (one of
the) the directory where the rasters are stored?

Rainer

> 
> Markus


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