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-rw-r--r--debianutils/mktemp.c2
-rw-r--r--include/usage.h2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/debianutils/mktemp.c b/debianutils/mktemp.c
index de27d3023..c48b6e2d5 100644
--- a/debianutils/mktemp.c
+++ b/debianutils/mktemp.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ int mktemp_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv)
opt_complementary = "?1"; /* 1 argument max */
opt = getopt32(argv, "dqtp:", &path);
- chp = argv[optind] ? argv[optind] : xstrdup("tmp.XXXXXXXXXX");
+ chp = argv[optind] ? argv[optind] : xstrdup("tmp.XXXXXX");
if (opt & (4|8)) { /* -t and/or -p */
const char *dir = getenv("TMPDIR");
diff --git a/include/usage.h b/include/usage.h
index 44e618222..3eb5b4867 100644
--- a/include/usage.h
+++ b/include/usage.h
@@ -2545,7 +2545,7 @@
"[-dt] [-p DIR] [TEMPLATE]"
#define mktemp_full_usage "\n\n" \
"Create a temporary file with name based on TEMPLATE and print its name.\n" \
- "TEMPLATE must end with XXXXXX (i.e., /tmp/temp.XXXXXX).\n" \
+ "TEMPLATE must end with XXXXXX (e.g. [/dir/]nameXXXXXX).\n" \
"\nOptions:" \
"\n -d Make a directory instead of a file" \
/* "\n -q Fail silently if an error occurs" - we ignore it */ \