Use sh 'default value' expansion more idiomatic construct

[code/vcsh.git] / vcsh

diff --git a/vcsh b/vcsh
index af41890cddc3737a6e3a30fc43aca1388909f45d..79ae0e0124e7fae4e4058620e8fce10aa29f9b70 100755 (executable)
--- a/vcsh
+++ b/vcsh
@@ -360,9 +360,8 @@ write_gitignore() {
 
        # Contrary to GNU mktemp, mktemp on BSD/OSX requires a template for temp files
        # Use the template GNU mktemo defaults to
-       # The downside to this is that we need to set TMPDIR explicitly; this may or may not be empty, so...
-       [ -z "$TMPDIR" ] && TMPDIR='/tmp'
-       tempfile=$(mktemp ${TMPDIR}/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX) || fatal "could not create tempfile" 51
+       # The downside to this is that we need to account for unset TMPDIR
+       tempfile=$(mktemp ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX) || fatal "could not create tempfile: '${tempfile}'" 51
 
        echo '*' > "$tempfile" || fatal "could not write to '$tempfile'" 57
        for gitignore in $gitignores; do