Which RPM provide equivant utility

[William Muriithi]

Thanks a lot guys
> Hmm.
>
> debianutils: /bin/tempfile
>
> Not promising there.
>
Ya, the fact the package has the word Debian kind of imply absence in any
rpm based distribution
> I saw some talk recently about moving the useful tools in debianutils
> that really weren't debian specific out into a seperate set of tools so
> others could use them too.

That would be nice.

>
> Of course the man page says:
>
> tempfile is deprecated; you should use mktemp(1) instead.
>
> It is part of coreutils which is at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
> and much more likely to exist in redhat.

Hmm, did "rpm -ql coreutils" and it didn't show up there.

>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>
William
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