I am working on a project that stores output files in the Temp folder. In Windows I can search the Temp folder but I don't know the location of Temp folder in OS X.
Can you please guide me to the location of said folder?
12 Answers
You can use: echo $TMPDIR.
To open and browse the folder, use open $TMPDIR.
Sources:
- How do I find out the system temporary directory?
- OSX: API for retrieving path to user's ~/temp folder
/tmp is also a temporary directory. Files are deleted from /tmp upon reboot.
To access it from Finder, use Command-G (Shift-Command-G in Mavericks) and enter /tmp in the dialogue box. From a terminal, just cd /tmp.
