Test2::...:GenTemp(3)

💅 Test2::Tools::GenTemp — the manual, but make it make sense

Ok so real talk, bestie: this is the page for Test2::Tools::GenTemp (from the Perl world, user-contributed docs, iykyk). Let me break it down for you 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

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

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This one exports a tool that helps you make a temporary directory, and then it'll also nest directories and text files inside it for you. No cap, it does the whole scaffolding thing so you don't have to 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Here's the main character energy in action:

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 👑

Every single sub here is exported by default — no asking, it just shows up 🌈

🧚 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 brand new temporary directory, loaded with all the files and subdirs you specify, recursively. Obsessed with the recursion tbh ✨

The initial temp directory is created using File::Temp::tempdir(), and if you want to pass arguments to tempdir, you do it with the -tempdir => [...] argument. That's the lil hookup right there 💅

🔥 SOURCE 🔥

The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/. Go look, it's giving open source excellence 🫶

⭐ MAINTAINERS ⭐

• Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

💜 AUTHORS 💜

• Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

📜 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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Ok that's a wrap bestie 🎀 Ngl it's a cute little module. Version check for the record: perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-28 — that's the Test2::...:GenTemp(3) page, signed off, sealed, delivered 💖✨🦋