>From: Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>So sprach Joerg Schilling am Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:13:48AM +0200:
>> There is neither of both on UNIX so you should'nt use them.....
>So, the "superior" OS'es like Solaris, HP-UX etc.pp. don't have neither of
>mktemp and tempfile? What a shame...
What a shame for Linux: You don't need it!
The main UNIX design goal is not to add useless gicks....
>> UNIX shell scripts are creating tmp files by using a file name=20
>> line /tmp/xxx.$$
>Which works, yes, but you will not get more than 1 tempfile this way, will
>you?
Well UNIX _allows_ you to be creative: use /tmp/xx.$$.someting
>> #!/bin/bash
>>=20
>> in the first line. There is no /bin/bash on UNIX, you should
>> use /bin/sh. I am sure that ther is no need to use bash nonstandard
>> shell extensions in your shell sript.
>Indeed, this should be changed to /bin/sh
And it is nice to see how development done on Linux yields in nonportable
results without reason.
J�rg
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