diff --git a/coreutils-colorls.csh b/coreutils-colorls.csh
index 5a54e45..d02fe85 100755
--- a/coreutils-colorls.csh
+++ b/coreutils-colorls.csh
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ endif
 alias ll 'ls -l'
 alias l. 'ls -d .*'
 set COLORS=/etc/DIR_COLORS
-set TMP="`mktemp .colorlsXXX --tmpdir=/tmp`"
 
 if ($?TERM) then
   if ( -e "/etc/DIR_COLORS.256color" ) then
@@ -32,10 +31,14 @@ set INCLUDE="`cat "$COLORS" | grep '^INCLUDE' | cut -d ' ' -f2-`"
 
 if ( ! -e "$COLORS" ) exit
 
-if ( "$INCLUDE" != '' ) cat "$INCLUDE" > $TMP
-cat "$COLORS" | grep -v '^INCLUDE' >> $TMP
+set _tmp="`mktemp .colorlsXXX --tmpdir=/tmp`"
 
-eval "`dircolors -c $TMP`"
+if ( "$INCLUDE" != '' ) cat "$INCLUDE" > $_tmp
+grep -v '^INCLUDE' "$COLORS" >> $_tmp
+
+eval "`dircolors -c $_tmp`"
+
+rm -f $_tmp
 
 if ( "$LS_COLORS" == '' ) exit
 set color_none=`sed -n '/^COLOR.*none/Ip' < $COLORS`
@@ -44,7 +47,7 @@ if ( "$color_none" != '' ) then
    exit
 endif
 unset color_none
-rm -f $TMP
+unset _tmp
 
 finish:
 alias ll 'ls -l --color=auto'
diff --git a/coreutils-colorls.sh b/coreutils-colorls.sh
index 5347b2a..7d27940 100755
--- a/coreutils-colorls.sh
+++ b/coreutils-colorls.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ if [ -z "$USER_LS_COLORS" ]; then
 
   INCLUDE=
   COLORS=
-  TMP="`mktemp .colorlsXXX --tmpdir=/tmp`"
 
   for colors in "$HOME/.dir_colors.$TERM" "$HOME/.dircolors.$TERM" \
       "$HOME/.dir_colors" "$HOME/.dircolors"; do
@@ -34,13 +33,17 @@ if [ -z "$USER_LS_COLORS" ]; then
   # Existence of $COLORS already checked above.
   [ -n "$COLORS" ] || return
 
+  TMP="`mktemp .colorlsXXX --tmpdir=/tmp`"
+
   [ -e "$INCLUDE" ] && cat "$INCLUDE" > $TMP
-  cat "$COLORS" | grep -v '^INCLUDE' >> $TMP
+  grep -v '^INCLUDE' "$COLORS" >> $TMP
 
   eval "`dircolors --sh $TMP 2>/dev/null`"
+
+  rm -f $TMP
+
   [ -z "$LS_COLORS" ] && return
   grep -qi "^COLOR.*none" $COLORS >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && return
-  rm -f $TMP
 fi
 
 alias ll='ls -l --color=auto' 2>/dev/null
diff --git a/coreutils.spec b/coreutils.spec
index 48b39f5..61f66b9 100644
--- a/coreutils.spec
+++ b/coreutils.spec
@@ -375,6 +375,9 @@ fi
 %{_sbindir}/chroot
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Aug 14 2013 Ondrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com 8.21-12
+- fix cases when colorls scripts' TMP wasn't deleted (#988152)
+
 * Fri Apr 05 2013 Ondrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com 8.21-11
 - Fix tmp file location in colorls scripts (#948008)