diff --git a/find-requires.ksyms b/find-requires.ksyms
index eac4010..3a50a48 100644
--- a/find-requires.ksyms
+++ b/find-requires.ksyms
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # This script is called during external module building to create dependencies
 # both upon the RHEL kernel, and on additional external modules. Symbols that
 # cannot be reconciled against those provided by the kernel are assumed to be
-# provided by an external module and "ksym" replaces th regular "kernel" dep.
+# provided by an external module and "ksym" replaces the regular "kernel" dep.
 
 IFS=$'\n'
 export LC_ALL=C
@@ -174,21 +174,23 @@ if [ ${#modules[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
         { print $2 ":" $1 }
     ' \
     | sed -r -e 's:$:\t'"$kernel"':' \
-    | sort -k1,1 -u > $symvers
+    | sort -k1,1 -u > "$symvers"
 
     # Symbols matching with the kernel get a "kernel" dependency
     mod_req=$(mktemp -t mod_req.XXXXX)
     mod_requires "${modules[@]}" > "$mod_req"
-    join -t $'\t' -j 1 $symvers "$mod_req" | sort -u \
+    join -t $'\t' -j 1 "$symvers" "$mod_req" | sort -u \
     | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "[\t:]" ; OFS = "\t" } { print "kernel(" $1 ") = " $2 }'
 
     # Symbols from elsewhere get a "ksym" dependency
-    join -t $'\t' -j 1 -v 2 $symvers "$mod_req" | sort -u \
+    join -t $'\t' -j 1 -v 2 "$symvers" "$mod_req" | sort -u \
     | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "[\t:]" ; OFS = "\t" } { print "ksym(" $1 ") = " $2 }'
 
     # Check kABI if the kabi-stablelists package is installed
     # Do this last so we can try to output this error at the end
-    kabi_check_symbols=($(join -t $'\t' -j 1 $symvers "$mod_req" | sort -u \
+    kabi_check_symbols=($(join -t $'\t' -j 1 "$symvers" "$mod_req" | sort -u \
     | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "[\t:]" ; OFS = "\t" } { print $1 }'))
     check_kabi "${kabi_check_symbols[@]}"
+
+    rm -f -- "$symvers" "$mod_req"
 fi