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  • The OP addressed this issue in a now-deleted comment ; I'm afraid I cannot provide an answer for systems which require gitbash to get a shell interface, hence my "slightly". I would actually be unable to tell where temp files are stored on a Windows system... Commented Dec 18, 2014 at 13:06
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    ditto that. Some crazy c:\User\Name\..............\stuff. And there are probably 100 of them. Still, some linux distros are approaching the same level of madness in /var. I was just curious. It struck me as an odd way to put it is all - in my experience frustration is very portable, and convenience less so. Very good answer anyway. Commented Dec 18, 2014 at 13:10
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    A year or so ago I wrote a Bash script to manipulate Windows Restore Point files that works on Win2K through to WinXP (later versions handle that stuff differently). My script uses WINDOWS/Temp or Windows/Temp as the default directory for its temp files; that directory also exists on Windows 7 machines. But my script allows the user to supply an alternate temp dir on the command line. Commented Dec 18, 2014 at 13:53
  • This wouldn't work on OS X, as you have to supply a template to mktemp. Commented Dec 24, 2014 at 20:50
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    Since El Capitan, mktemp just works: simple mktemp returns a file, and mktemp -d returns a directory; no templates required. The manual is not updated though. Commented Apr 30, 2017 at 4:18