In Git Bash no mktemp

[albertosantini]

In Git Bash (on Windows) there is not mktemp.

A quick and dirty workaround:

# tempfile="$(mktemp "$datafile.XXXXXX")" || return
tempfile="/tmp/.z.tmp"

Maybe an awk approach or a _Z_DATA and _Z_DATA_OLD one may be feasible.

[albertosantini]

Alternative approaches:

• Use of $RANDOM bash shell variable
• Use of $$ variable

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-scripting-bash-how-to-create-temporary-random-file-name.html

[rupa]

I don't mind removing this dependency with a purely shell solution.

[pimgeek]

I had encountered with the same problem and solved it by downloading mktemp binary for windows and uncompressing it under git/bin. Then it works. (I was trying to run leiningen [lein help] command under Git Bash, on Windows 7)

The download site I visited is as follows:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/mktemp.htm

[rupa]

I did remove the mktemp dependency ... are you using an old version?

[abeldantas]

I'm using version 1.9.5 and it has this problem
git-ftp: line 28: mktemp: command not found

and in git-ftp line 28 I have:
readonly TMP_DIR="$(mktemp -d -t git-ftp-XXXX)"