TEST2::TOOLS::GENTEMP(3pm)

okay bestie, you've pulled up the Test2::Tools::GenTemp(3pm) page from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide, and it's giving “temp directory but make it populated” energy 💖✨.

💖 NAME 💖

Test2::Tools::GenTemp — a tool for generating a populated temp directory. literally that's the whole brand 🎀.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This exports a tool that helps you make a temporary directory, plus nested directories and text files within 🦋. It's giving “scaffold a whole lil filesystem” and honestly? obsessed 🫶.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

use Test2::Tools::GenTemp qw/gen_temp/;

my $dir = gen_temp(
    a_file => "Contents of a_file",
    a_dir  => {
        'a_file' => 'Contents of a_dir/afile',
        a_nested_dir => { ... },
    },
    ...
);

done_testing;

🦋 EXPORTS 🦋

All subs are exported by default — no cap, they just show up like besties who let themselves in 💅.

• gen_temp(file => 'content', subdir => [ sub_dir_file => 'content', ...], ...)
• gen_temp(-tempdir => \@TEMPDIR_ARGS, file => 'content', subdir => [ sub_dir_file => 'content', ...], ...)

This will generate a new temporary directory with all the files and subdirs you specify, recursively 🔥. The initial temp directory is created using File::Temp::tempdir(), and you may pass arguments to tempdir using the -tempdir => [...] argument. that's the lil control knob, iykyk 💅.

🌸 SOURCE 🌸

The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/ — go snoop, bestie 🌈.

💅 MAINTAINERS 💅

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org> — maintaining the vibes ✨.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org> — same icon, same email, same crown 👑.

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

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Signed off from the Test2::...:GenTemp(3pm) corner: this page is from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-11-03 — stay slaying those temp dirs, bestie 💖✨.