The Java Developers Almanac 1.4

e23. Creating a Temporary File

    try {
        // Create temp file.
        File temp = File.createTempFile("pattern", ".suffix");
    
        // Delete temp file when program exits.
        temp.deleteOnExit();
    
        // Write to temp file
        BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(temp));
        out.write("aString");
        out.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
    }

Related Examples

e19. Determining If a File or Directory Exists
e20. Creating a File
e21. Getting the Size of a File
e22. Deleting a File
e24. Renaming a File or Directory
e25. Moving a File or Directory to Another Directory
e26. Getting and Setting the Modification Time of a File or Directory
e27. Forcing Updates to a File to the Disk

See also: Directories    Encodings    Filenames and Pathnames    Parsing    Reading and Writing    Serialization

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