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Alan Barrett schrieb:
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Tilman Kranz wrote:

>> The synopsis section is modified to
>>
>>      mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] [-t prefix | template ...]

> I think that should use curly braces to indicate a non-optional
> choice:

>      mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] {-t prefix | template ...}

For convenience I regenerated the patch adopting this change and
attached it.



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--- mktemp.1	2006-06-19 06:17:07.000000000 +0200
+++ mktemp.1.new	2006-09-17 11:19:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -41,9 +41,12 @@
 .Nm mktemp
 .Op Fl d
 .Op Fl q
-.Op Fl t Ar prefix
 .Op Fl u
-.Op Ar template ...
+.Bro
+.Fl t Ar Prefix
+.No |
+.Ar template ...
+.Brc
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm
@@ -109,10 +112,18 @@
 be taken to ensure that it is appropriate to use an environment variable
 potentially supplied by the user.
 .Pp
-Any number of temporary files may be created in a single invocation,
-including one based on the internal template resulting from the
+Any number of temporary files may be created in a single invocation
+using multiple
+.Ar template
+arguments, also a single one based on the internal template with the
+.Fl t
+option value as filename prefix.
+.Pp
+At least one
+.Ar template
+argument or the
 .Fl t
-flag.
+option must be present.
 .Pp
 .Nm
 is provided to allow shell scripts to safely use temporary files.
@@ -131,7 +142,7 @@
 .Nm
 be used instead.
 .Sh OPTIONS
-The available options are as follows:
+All options must preceed all non-options. The available options are as follows:
 .Bl -tag -width indent
 .It Fl d
 Make a directory instead of a file.
@@ -144,7 +155,14 @@
 .Ar prefix
 and
 .Ev TMPDIR
-if set) to create a filename template.
+if set) to create a filename template. If
+.Fl t Ar prefix
+and
+.Ar template
+are both given,
+.Ar prefix
+will not apply to
+.Ar template.
 .It Fl u
 Operate in
 .Dq unsafe



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