Some may have come across a .NET call that is supposed to generate random temporary file names:
$path = [System.IO.Path]::GetTempFileName() $path
And it does. But it does more. It actually creates an empty file with that file name:
PS C:\> Test-Path $path True
If you don't clean up your temp files, you will even get an exception once 65535 temporary files have been created.
In PowerShell 5.0, New-TemporaryFile does the exact same thing, except here the file is returned so you immediately recognize that you actually created a file, not a filename.
