On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: [ Debian uses a program called `mktemp' to create temporary files in [ shell scripts. Other distributions might well adopt this or a similar [ solution. An excerpt from its manpage is enclosed below. RedHat includes a mktemp too, its a package by itself. From the look of the manpage, it seems to be based on the mktemp that comes with Debian, just with one extra option. The option is "-d", which creates a unique directory rather than a file.
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