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

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 Apache Ant 1.7	boolean
createfile	Whether the temp file should be created by this task; default false.Since Ant 1.8	boolean