From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
Date: 2010-03-03T13:07:02+09:00
Subject: Re: A gem for handling temporary file(s)?

Paul Harrington wrote:
> Albert Schlef wrote:
>> I'm writing a program that needs to generate two or three temporary
>> files.
>> 
>> (Specifically: my program runs a shell command and I need to pass the
>> shell command a path to a non-existing file which it will dump data to.)
[...]
> ri Tempfile
> 
> that'll get you started

Thanks! I didn't know about Tempfile.

Though I have a little problem: Tempfile let me *open* a new temporary 
file. But I just need to generate a temporary file *name*, which I'll 
pass to a shell command.

I guess I'll immediately close the handle Tempfile.new() returns and 
pass its path() to the shell command.
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