Bug 30595

Summary:	many scripts want "tempfile" instead of "mktemp"
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	placeholder <placeholder>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	glebfm, ldv, placeholder, vt
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2014-12-23 17:58:07 MSK

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.

Comment 1 Dmitry V. Levin 2018-12-29 05:38:52 MSK

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.