30595 2014-12-23 17:58:07 +0300 many scripts want "tempfile" instead of "mktemp" 2018-12-29 05:38:52 +0300 1 1 4 Development Sisyphus coreutils unstable all Linux CLOSED WONTFIX P3 enhancement --- 1 imz placeholder glebfm ldv placeholder vt qa-sisyphus oldest_to_newest 149426 0 imz 2014-12-23 17:58:07 +0300 coreutils-8.21-alt1 I met several scripts which want "tempfile". Perhaps, a convenience compatibility wrapper around "mktemp" could be provided to make using such scripts easy. For example, /usr/bin/cpif from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.11b-8_i386.deb or http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/nowebm-2.11a-2.i386.rpm from http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/ : new=$(tempfile) trap 'rm -f $new; exit 1' 1 2 15 # clean up files .... Probably, "tempfile" is a Debian convention. 177051 1 ldv 2018-12-29 05:38:52 +0300 According to https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/debianutils/tempfile.1.en.html tempfile has already been deprecated in Debian at the time when this request was submitted. I don't think we really need this deprecated utility.