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8.110. File::Temp
File::Temp can be used to create and
open temporary files safely. The tempfile( )
function returns the name and the open filehandle of a temporary
file. The tempdir( ) function creates a
temporary directory. File::Temp guarantees that race conditions
cannot occur since it returns both a filehandle and filename. In
addition, File::Temp checks for safe file and directory permissions,
so the sticky bits are checked for group-writable directories. To
write a temp file into /tmp (default), you would
do something like the following:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use File::Temp qw(tempfile);
my($fh, $filename) = tempfile( );
print "opening $filename for writing...\n";
print $fh "some data ...\n";
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