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.\" $OpenBSD$

.\"

.\" Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>

.\"

.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any

.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above

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and overwrites a portion of it to create a unique filename.

The

.Ar template

may be any filename with some number of

may be any filename with at least six

.Ql X Ns s

appended

to it, for example

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echo "program output" >> $TMPFILE

.Ed

.Pp

In some cases, we want the script to catch the error.

In other cases, we want the script to catch the error.

For instance, if we attempt to create two temporary files and

the second one fails we need to remove the first before exiting.

.Bd -literal -offset indent

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rm -f $TMPFILE

}

.Ed

.Sh DIAGNOSTICS

One of the following error messages may be displayed if

.Nm

does not succeed and the

.Fl q

option was not specified:

.Bl -tag -width indent

.It Li "insufficient number of Xs in template"

The specified

.Ar template

contained fewer than six

.Ql X Ns s

at the end.

.It Li "template must not contain directory separators in -t mode"

The

.Ar template

contained one or more directory components and the

.Fl t

option was specified.

.It Li "cannot make temp dir"

.Nm

was unable to create the temporary directory for any of the reasons

specified by

.Xr mkdir 2 .

.It Li "cannot make temp file"

.Nm

was unable to create the temporary file for any of the reasons

specified by

.Xr open 2 .

.It Li "cannot allocate memory"

.Nm

was unable to allocate memory for any of the reasons specified by

.Xr malloc 3 .

.El

.Sh SEE ALSO

.Xr mktemp 3

.Sh HISTORY