# salt.modules.temp

Simple module for creating temporary directories and files

This is a thin wrapper around Pythons tempfile module

Added in version 2015.8.0.

salt.modules.temp.dir(suffix='', prefix='tmp', parent=None)

  Create a temporary directory

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' temp.dir
      salt '*' temp.dir prefix='mytemp-' parent='/var/run/'

salt.modules.temp.file(suffix='', prefix='tmp', parent=None)

  Create a temporary file

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' temp.file
      salt '*' temp.file prefix='mytemp-' parent='/var/run/'