>Ok... that makes sense... :-)
>
>Erm... what is the stabilty state of "-u" - wasn't it "Commited
>Obsolete" ? If that's the case it may be nice to get rid of the
>"Obsolete" and poke the GNU coreutils maintainers to rename the "dryrun"
>option to something else (I'll poke AST+BSD upstream to do the same for
>their "mktemp" command (e.g. clarify documentation)).
I don't think so; it's in the manual page.
I'm the only person clever enough to realize that "mktemp -u" in OpenBSD
and Solaris is the exact same function as --dryrun in GNU coreutils?
-u, --dry-run
do not create anything; merely print a name (unsafe)
Casper
