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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.19
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1 b/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1
index 4300de2..da93d35 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1
@@ -150,19 +150,22 @@ fragment illustrates a simple use of
where the script should quit if it cannot get a safe
temporary file.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/$0.XXXXXX` || exit 1
+tempfoo=`basename $0`
+TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/${tempfoo}.XXXXXX` || exit 1
echo "program output" >> $TMPFILE
.Ed
.Pp
To allow the use of $TMPDIR:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-TMPFILE=`mktemp -t $0` || exit 1
+tempfoo=`basename $0`
+TMPFILE=`mktemp -t ${tempfoo}` || exit 1
echo "program output" >> $TMPFILE
.Ed
.Pp
In this case, we want the script to catch the error itself.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-TMPFILE=`mktemp -q /tmp/$0.XXXXXX`
+tempfoo=`basename $0`
+TMPFILE=`mktemp -q /tmp/${tempfoo}.XXXXXX`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "$0: Can't create temp file, exiting..."
exit 1
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