* Greg Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> doops. I meant to put the FILE=$1 inside the while loop.
Ah. So what 'shift' does is to replace the contents of $1 with $2, so
you can get to whatever is in $2 by calling $1. Now I get it... I
think. :)
> So this should work. (Like you don't have enough solutions already :-) )
Yeah, I thought the hard thing would be working out "how" to do it,
not, "which solution to use".
> TMPFILE=$(mktemp /tmp/tmp.XXXXX)
This gave me a 'command not found' error. 'mktemp' doesn't exist on
my system... but...
,----[ man 3 mktemp ]
| SYNOPSIS
| #include <stdlib.h>
|
| char *mktemp(char *template);
|
| DESCRIPTION
| The mktemp() function generates a unique temporary file
| name from template. The last six characters of template
| must be XXXXXX and these are replaced with a string that
| makes the filename unique. Since it will be modified, tem-
| plate must not be a string constant, but should be
| declared as a character array.
`----
Is this what you are referring to? No, it can't be. There'd be no
way of calling a C function from a shell script. You must have a
utility called "mktemp" that does a similar thing to the C function
"mktemp".
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