tempdir

A Rust library for creating a temporary directory and deleting its entire contents when the directory is dropped.

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Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

toml [dependencies] tempdir = "0.3"

and this to your crate root:

rust extern crate tempdir;

Example

This sample method does the following:

  1. Create a temporary directory in the default location with the given prefix.
  2. Determine a file path in the directory and print it out.
  3. Create a file inside the temp folder.
  4. Write to the file and sync it to disk.
  5. Close the directory, deleting the contents in the process.

```rust use std::io::{self, Write}; use std::fs::File; use tempdir::TempDir;

fn writetempfolderwithfiles() -> io::Result<()> { let dir = TempDir::new("mydirectoryprefix")?; let filepath = dir.path().join("foo.txt"); println!("{:?}", filepath);

let mut f = File::create(file_path)?;
f.write_all(b"Hello, world!")?;
f.sync_all()?;
dir.close()?;

Ok(())

} ```

Note: Closing the directory is actually optional, as it would be done on drop. The benefit of closing here is that it allows possible errors to be handled.