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<font size="+3" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><strong>Tempfile
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<br><font face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">This task sets a property to the name of a temporary file.</font>
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This task sets a property to the name of a temporary file.
Unlike <code>java.io.File.createTempFile</code>,
this task does not actually create the temporary file, but it does guarantee that the
file did not exist when the task was executed.
<p>Examples:
<pre>&lt;tempfile property="temp.file"/&gt;</pre>
create a temporary file
<pre>&lt;tempfile property="temp.file" suffix=".xml"/&gt;</pre>
create a temporary file with the <code>.xml</code> suffix
<pre>&lt;tempfile property="temp.file" destDir="build"/&gt;</pre>
create a temporary file in the <code>build</code> subdirectory
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">property</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Sets the property you wish to assign the temporary file to.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">String</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Required</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">destdir</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Sets the destination directory. If not set, the basedir directory is used instead.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">File</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">prefix</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Sets the optional prefix string for the temp file.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">String</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">suffix</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Sets the optional suffix string for the temp file.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">String</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">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 <em>false</em>. <strong>Since Ant 1.7</strong></font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">boolean</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">createfile</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Whether the temp file should be created by this task; default <em>false</em>.<strong>Since Ant 1.8</strong></font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">boolean</font>
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