Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: > Nuno J. Silva wrote: [...] >> As I want to be sure nothing is overwritten, I tried calling mktemp with >> a modified template: >> >> $ mktemp tmp.XXXXXXXXXX.ext >> mktemp: too few X's in template `tmp.XXXXXXXXXX.ext' [...] >> Is this a limitation of mktemp (X's must be on the right)? Or am I >> missing some parameter? --suffix=.ext (seen on the web) doesn't work. >> >> (And the version is 7.5:) > > Upgrade to coreutils-8.1 or newer (latest is 8.4). > mktemp gained the --suffix=SUFF option in 8.1: > > --suffix=SUFF append SUFF to TEMPLATE. SUFF must not contain slash. > This option is implied if TEMPLATE does not end in X.
That's good news. But as I'm using a package management system (portage) on which the stable coreutils version is 7.5, I'll wait a while - until they stabilize a newer version. Thanks! -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
