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		Galanwe 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Self-contained Python scripts with uv FYI, have a look at "trap .. EXIT" to defer cleanups like your unlink. It's neat cause it will run even if the script is interrupted / fails before the unlink.

lioeters 8 months ago [–]

Useful tip, I suppose it will look like:

  temp=$(mktemp)
  trap 'unlink $temp' EXIT
  # Do things

Galanwe 8 months ago | [–]

Exactly. And if your cleanup is more involved you can call a cleanup function.

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