iOS 9 or later • Swift 3 or later let tmpDirURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: NSTemporaryDirectory()) iOS 10.0+Beta, macOS 10.12+, tvOS 10.0+Beta & watchOS 3.0+ • Xcode 8 • Swift 3 or later let tmpDirURL = FileManager.default.temporaryDirectory
In Python 3, TemporaryDirectory from the tempfile module can be used. From the examples: import tempfile with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdirname: print(‘created temporary directory’, tmpdirname) # directory and contents have been removed To manually control when the directory is removed, don’t use a context manager, as in the following example: import tempfile temp_dir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() print(temp_dir.name) … Read more
Caveat: you can never guarantee that the temp folder will be deleted, because the user could always hard kill your process and then it can’t run anything else. That said, do temp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp() try: <some code> finally: shutil.rmtree(temp_dir) Since this is a very common operation, Python has a special way to encapsulate “do something, … Read more
I think it can be done without looping by using a GUID for the directory name: function New-TemporaryDirectory { $parent = [System.IO.Path]::GetTempPath() [string] $name = [System.Guid]::NewGuid() New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path (Join-Path $parent $name) } Original Attempt With GetRandomFileName Here’s my port of this C# solution: function New-TemporaryDirectory { $parent = [System.IO.Path]::GetTempPath() $name = [System.IO.Path]::GetRandomFileName() New-Item … Read more
No, there is no equivalent to mkdtemp. The best option is to use a combination of GetTempPath and GetRandomFileName. You would need code similar to this: public string GetTemporaryDirectory() { string tempDirectory = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), Path.GetRandomFileName()); Directory.CreateDirectory(tempDirectory); return tempDirectory; }
Use the mkdtemp() function from the tempfile module: import tempfile import shutil dirpath = tempfile.mkdtemp() # … do stuff with dirpath shutil.rmtree(dirpath)
Use mktemp -d. It creates a temporary directory with a random name and makes sure that file doesn’t already exist. You need to remember to delete the directory after using it though.
That would be the tempfile module. It has functions to get the temporary directory, and also has some shortcuts to create temporary files and directories in it, either named or unnamed. Example: import tempfile print tempfile.gettempdir() # prints the current temporary directory f = tempfile.TemporaryFile() f.write(‘something on temporaryfile’) f.seek(0) # return to beginning of file … Read more
If you are using JDK 7 use the new Files.createTempDirectory class to create the temporary directory. Path tempDirWithPrefix = Files.createTempDirectory(prefix); Before JDK 7 this should do it: public static File createTempDirectory() throws IOException { final File temp; temp = File.createTempFile(“temp”, Long.toString(System.nanoTime())); if(!(temp.delete())) { throw new IOException(“Could not delete temp file: ” + temp.getAbsolutePath()); } if(!(temp.mkdir())) … Read more
System.IO.Path.GetTempPath() is just a wrapper for a native call to GetTempPath(..) in Kernel32. Have a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364992(VS.85).aspx Copied from that page: The GetTempPath function checks for the existence of environment variables in the following order and uses the first path found: The path specified by the TMP environment variable. The path specified by the … Read more