mkdtempAsync

external fun mkdtempAsync(prefix: String): Promise<String>(source)
external fun mkdtempAsync(prefix: String, options: ObjectEncodingOptions? = definedExternally): Promise<String>(source)
external fun mkdtempAsync(prefix: String, options: BufferEncoding? = definedExternally): Promise<String>(source)

Creates a unique temporary directory. A unique directory name is generated by appending six random characters to the end of the provided prefix. Due to platform inconsistencies, avoid trailing X characters in prefix. Some platforms, notably the BSDs, can return more than six random characters, and replace trailing X characters in prefix with random characters.

The optional options argument can be a string specifying an encoding, or an object with an encoding property specifying the character encoding to use.

import { mkdtemp } from 'node:fs/promises';
import { join } from 'node:path';
import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';

try {
await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'foo-'));
} catch (err) {
console.error(err);
}

The fsPromises.mkdtemp() method will append the six randomly selected characters directly to the prefix string. For instance, given a directory /tmp, if the intention is to create a temporary directory within /tmp, the prefix must end with a trailing platform-specific path separator (require('node:path').sep).

Since

v10.0.0

Return

Fulfills with a string containing the file system path of the newly created temporary directory.


external fun mkdtempAsync(prefix: String, options: BufferEncodingOption): Promise<Buffer>(source)

Asynchronously creates a unique temporary directory. Generates six random characters to be appended behind a required prefix to create a unique temporary directory.

Parameters

options

The encoding (or an object specifying the encoding), used as the encoding of the result. If not provided, 'utf8' is used.