This repository is a script that creates a date-stamped directory in
$HOME/tmp/ and symlinks that directory as $HOME/tmp/today. The
corresponding systemd unit files create this directory every day.
A $HOME/tmp/yesterday symlink is also generated each day.
$ ls -l tmp/today
...
drwxr-xr-x. 1 whot whot 0 Jul 6 02:00 2022-07-06-Wed
drwxr-xr-x. 1 whot whot 0 Jul 7 02:00 2022-07-07-Thu
drwxr-xr-x. 1 whot whot 0 Jul 8 19:08 2022-07-08-Fri
drwxr-xr-x. 1 whot whot 0 Jul 9 02:00 2022-07-09-Sat
drwxr-xr-x. 1 whot whot 0 Jul 10 02:00 2022-07-10-Sun
drwxr-xr-x. 1 whot whot 60 Jul 11 19:56 2022-07-11-Mon
drwxr-xr-x. 1 whot whot 42 Jul 12 10:47 2022-07-12-Tue
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 whot whot 14 Jul 12 02:00 today -> 2022-07-12-Tue
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 whot whot 14 Jul 11 02:00 yesterday -> 2022-07-11-Mon
The use for this tmp/today directory is a download-and-forget directory.
I have my browser's default directory set to that path, so anything I download
ends up there. Bugzilla attachments, test code, git clones of projects I need
to investigate but won't need for long all go in there.
There is no automatic cleanup of this directory, every so-often I just go through and delete anything old enough that I won't need it anymore.
My setup pre-dates systemd (I used to have cron jobs for this) so I can definitely say it is useful :)
$ cp tmp-today $HOME/.local/bin/
$ cp tmp-today.service tmp-today.timer $HOME/.config/systemd/user/
$ systemctl --user enable tmp-today.service
$ systemctl --user enable --now tmp-today.timer
Note that the tmp-today.service has the path to the tmp-today script
encoded, if installing elsewhere the unit file must be adjusted accordingly.