Bash: Resolve symbolic links in $TMPDIR

This stops vim from saving backup files of temporary text files, eg for Mercurial or Mutt.

diff --git a/.bash/environment b/.bash/environment
index 96a4187e9d5ffb6caedcc7c18d951f3c07a9d2a1..ddbae4ad0df10b86050fe80060ddcc712ee4f7f2 100644 (file)
--- a/.bash/environment
+++ b/.bash/environment
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ export PYTHONSTARTUP="${HOME}/.pythonrc.py"
 export HISTCONTROL="ignoredups"
 export HISTSIZE="10000"
 
+# Expand any symbolic links in the TMPDIR environment variable
+export TMPDIR="$(cd "${TMPDIR}" && pwd -P)"
+
 # Load the bash functions
 source "${HOME}/.bash/functions"