mktemp.sh   [plain text]


# mktemp

# Copyright (c) Derek Price, Ximbiot <http://ximbiot.com>, and the
# Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://gnu.org>

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# This Bourne Shell scriptlet is intended as a simple replacement for
# the BSD mktemp function for systems that do not support mktemp.  It
# currently does not check that the files it is creating did not exist
# previously and it does not verify that it successfully creates the
# files it returns the names of.
mktemp() {
	if test x"$1" = x-d; then
		tmp=`echo $2 |sed "s/XXXXXX/$$/"`
		(umask 077 && exec mkdir $tmp) || return 1
	else
		tmp=`echo $1 |sed "s/XXXXXX/$$/"`
		(umask 077 && touch $tmp) || return 1
	fi
	echo $tmp
	return 0
}