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  2. Temporary file - Wikipedia

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    A temporary file is a file created to store information temporarily, either for a program's intermediate use or for transfer to a permanent file when complete. [1] It may be created by computer programs for a variety of purposes, such as when a program cannot allocate enough memory for its tasks, when the program is working on data bigger than the architecture's address space, or as a ...

  3. tmpfs - Wikipedia

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    The idea behind tmpfs is similar in concept to a RAM disk, in that both provide a file system stored in volatile memory; however, the implementations are different. While tmpfs is implemented at the logical file system layer, a RAM disk is implemented at the physical file system layer. In other words, a RAM disk is a virtual block device with a ...

  4. Temporary folder - Wikipedia

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    In MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, the temporary directory is set by the environment variable TEMP or TMP. [1] Using the Window API, one can find the path to the temporary directory using the GetTempPath2 function, [2] or one can obtain a path to a uniquely-named temporary file using the GetTempFileName function. [3]

  5. List of file copying software - Wikipedia

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    File copying is a fundamental operation for data storage. [citation needed] Most popular operating systems such as Windows, macOS and Linux as well as smartphone operating systems such as Android contain built-in file copying functions as well as command line (CLI) and graphical (GUI) interfaces to filing system copy and move functions. In some ...

  6. File copying - Wikipedia

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    In digital file management, copying is a file operation that creates a new file which has the same content as an existing file. Computer operating systems include file copying methods to users; operating systems with graphical user interfaces ( GUIs ) often providing copy-and-paste or drag-and-drop methods of file copying.

  7. Bak file - Wikipedia

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    In computing, ".bak" is a filename extension commonly used to signify a backup copy of a file. When a program is about to overwrite an existing file (for example, when the user saves the document they are working on), the program may first make a copy of the existing file, with .bak appended to the filename.

  8. File locking - Wikipedia

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    File locking is a mechanism that restricts access to a computer file, or to a region of a file, by allowing only one user or process to modify or delete it at a specific time, and preventing reading of the file while it's being modified or deleted.

  9. cat (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    This is because the redirection form opens the file as the stdin file descriptor which command can fully access, while the cat form simply provides the data as a stream of bytes. Another common case where cat is unnecessary is where a command defaults to operating on stdin, but will read from a file, if the filename is given as an argument.