1# mktemp
2
3# Copyright (c) Derek Price, Ximbiot <http://ximbiot.com>, and the
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5
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22
23# This Bourne Shell scriptlet is intended as a simple replacement for
24# the BSD mktemp function for systems that do not support mktemp.  It
25# currently does not check that the files it is creating did not exist
26# previously and it does not verify that it successfully creates the
27# files it returns the names of.
28mktemp() {
29	if test x"$1" = x-d; then
30		tmp=`echo $2 |sed "s/XXXXXX/$$/"`
31		(umask 077 && exec mkdir $tmp) || return 1
32	else
33		tmp=`echo $1 |sed "s/XXXXXX/$$/"`
34		(umask 077 && touch $tmp) || return 1
35	fi
36	echo $tmp
37	return 0
38}
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