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Self-Cleaning Temp Directory

Bash & Scripting · medium · solved in-browser (no VM needed) · 3 tiered hints

Write /home/player/work.sh (shebang #!/bin/bash) that creates a private temporary directory with `mktemp -d`, then installs a `trap ... EXIT` that removes it with `rm -rf` so the directory is always deleted when the script ends, even on error. (Authored config, graded structurally — the engine isn't run here.)

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