NAME¶

std::experimental::filesystem::temp_directory_path - std::experimental::filesystem::temp_directory_path

Synopsis¶

Defined in header <experimental/filesystem>
path temp_directory_path(); (1) (filesystem TS)
path temp_directory_path( error_code& ec );

Returns the directory location suitable for temporary files.

Parameters¶

(none)

Return value¶

A directory suitable for temporary files. The path is guaranteed to exist and to be
a directory. The overload that takes error_code& argument returns an empty path on
error.

Exceptions¶

The overload that does not take a error_code& parameter throws filesystem_error on
underlying OS API errors, constructed with path to be returned as the first argument
and the OS error code as the error code argument. std::bad_alloc may be thrown if
memory allocation fails. The overload taking a error_code& parameter sets it to the
OS API error code if an OS API call fails, and executes ec.clear() if no errors
occur. This overload has
noexcept specification:
noexcept

Notes¶

On POSIX systems, the path may be the one specified in the environment variables
TMPDIR, TMP, TEMP, TEMPDIR, and, if none of them are specified, the path "/tmp" is
returned.

On Windows systems, the path is typically the one returned by GetTempPath

Example¶

// Run this code

#include <iostream>
#include <experimental/filesystem>
namespace fs = std::experimental::filesystem;
int main()
{
std::cout << "Temp directory is " << fs::temp_directory_path() << '\n';
}

Possible output:¶

Temp directory is "C:\Windows\TEMP\"

See also¶

tmpfile creates and opens a temporary, auto-removing file
(function)