Test::TempDir - Temporary files support for testing.
use Test::TempDir; my $test_tempdir = temp_root(); my ( $fh, $file ) = tempfile(); my $directory_scratch_obj = scratch();
Test::TempDir provides temporary directory creation with testing in mind.
The differences between using this and using File::Temp are:
If t/tmp is available (writable, creatable, etc) it's preferred over $ENV{TMPDIR} etc. Otherwise a temporary directory will be used.
t/tmp
$ENV{TMPDIR}
This is temp_root
temp_root
Lockfiles are used on t/tmp, to prevent race conditions when running under a parallel test harness.
The temp_root is cleaned at the end of a test run, but not if tests failed.
temp_root is emptied at the begining of a test run unconditionally.
The default policy is not to clean the individual tempfiles and tempdirs within temp_root, in order to aid in debugging of failed tests.
tempfiles
tempdirs
The root of the temporary stuff.
Wrappers for the File::Temp functions of the same name.
The default options are changed to use temp_root for DIR and disable CLEANUP, but these are overridable.
DIR
CLEANUP
Loads Directory::Scratch and instantiates a new one, with the same default options as tempfile and tempdir.
tempfile
tempdir
File::Temp, Directory::Scratch, Path::Class
This module is maintained using Git. You can get the latest version from git://github.com/nothingmuch/test-tempdir.git.
Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
Copyright (c) 2008 Yuval Kogman. All rights reserved This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Test::TempDir, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Test::TempDir
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Test::TempDir
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.