Added many, many more actions.

utils/mktemp/make_temp.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+INPUT="$1"
+INPUT_TYPE="$2"
+OUTPUT_TYPE="$3"
+TRANSFER_TYPE="$4"
+TMP_DIR="$5"
+MKTEMP_ARGS="$6"
+
+# match up the output type to the input type.
+if [[ $OUTPUT_TYPE == 'auto' ]]; then
+    if [[ $INPUT_TYPE == 'raw' ]]; then
+        OUTPUT_TYPE="file"
+    elif [[ $INPUT_TYPE == 'expression' ]]; then
+        OUTPUT_TYPE="dir"
+    else
+        OUTPUT_TYPE="$INPUT_TYPE"
+    fi
+fi
+
+if [[ $INPUT_TYPE == 'raw' && $OUTPUT_TYPE == 'dir' && -n "$INPUT" ]]; then
+    echo "Can't output raw input to a temporary directory."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [[ $OUTPUT_TYPE == "dir" ]]; then
+    MKTEMP_ARGS="-d $MKTEMP_ARGS"
+fi
+
+mkdir -p "$TMP_DIR"
+
+TMP=$(mktemp -p "$TMP_DIR" $MKTEMP_ARGS)
+echo "tmp=$TMP" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+if [[ -z "$INPUT" ]]; then
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+TRANSFER_COMMAND="cp -r"
+if [[ $TRANSFER_TYPE == 'move' ]]; then
+    TRANSFER_COMMAND="mv"
+fi
+
+if [[ $INPUT_TYPE == 'raw' ]]; then
+    echo "$INPUT" > "$TMP"
+elif [[ $OUTPUT_TYPE == 'file' ]]; then
+    $TRANSFER_COMMAND "$INPUT" "$TMP"
+elif [[ $OUTPUT_TYPE == 'dir' ]]; then
+    if [[ $INPUT_TYPE == "expression" ]]; then
+        $TRANSFER_COMMAND $INPUT "$TMP"
+    else
+        $TRANSFER_COMMAND "$INPUT" "$TMP"
+    fi
+    
+fi