Tempfile Task
This task sets a property to the name of a temporary file.
Apache Ant
 
Description
This task sets a property to the name of a temporary file. Unlike java.io.File.createTempFile, this task does not actually create the temporary file, but it does guarantee that the file did not exist when the task was executed.

Examples:

<tempfile property="temp.file"/>
create a temporary file
<tempfile property="temp.file" suffix=".xml"/>
create a temporary file with the .xml suffix
<tempfile property="temp.file" destDir="build"/>
create a temporary file in the build subdirectory
 
Parameters
Attribute Description Type Requirement
property Sets the property you wish to assign the temporary file to. String Required
destdir Sets the destination directory. If not set, the basedir directory is used instead. File Optional
prefix Sets the optional prefix string for the temp file. String
suffix Sets the optional suffix string for the temp file. String
deleteonexit Whether the temp file will be marked for deletion on normal exit of the Java Virtual Machine (even though the file may never be created); default false. Since Ant 1.7 String
 
Parameters as nested elements