Temporary directory in Rust

The tempdir crate allows us to create a temporary directory.

Dependencies

examples/temporary-folder/Cargo.toml

[package]
name = "temporary-folder"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"

# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html

[dependencies]
tempdir = "0.3.7"

Code

examples/temporary-folder/src/main.rs

use tempdir::TempDir;
fn main() {
    temp_dir();
}

fn temp_dir() {
    let tmp_dir = TempDir::new("example").unwrap();
    println!("tempdir: {:?}", tmp_dir);
}

In this example the directory is removed at when the variable goes out of scope.