On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 07:31:56PM +0100, Alejandro C via austin-group-l at The
Open Group wrote:
> Do we really need the -q option?
The original reporter (Mark Lundblad - illiliti) recommended it and
argued that it is fairly commonly implemented. The example also shows
it in use:
1. Create and use a temporary file, ignoring failure.
<tt>file=$(mktemp -q file.XXXXXX) && {
echo ... > "$file" # Use $file within this block
rm "$file"
}</tt>
But I acknowledge that the same can be accomplished with:
file=$(mktemp file.XXXXXX 2>/dev/null) && {
...
rm "$file"
}
at which point you are right that -q does not buy much functionality,
other than happening to be something to standardize because it is
common among implementations.
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
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