Autorest: Hard to remove leftover of temporary files

Created on 13 Apr 2021  路  3Comments  路  Source: Azure/autorest

Describe the bug
Normal operations of running autorest produce files with 3 dots in names. These files is extremely hard to remove using Windows explorer.
For example:

  • C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\autorest-jv97C5\mem-135-merged-20oai3-20doc...
  • C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\autorest-jv97C5\mem-138-composed-20oai3-20doc...

Expected behavior
Change names for the temp files.

bug
Source
picture kant2002

Most helpful comment

So we actually have a autorest --clear-temp flag that lets you do just that.

picture timotheeguerin on 14 Apr 2021
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Can't you just delete the folders starting with autorest-?

timotheeguerin picture timotheeguerin on 13 Apr 2021

only from command line. and since all of them in separate folders, it's annoying to remove. Not even rename allowed. Issue probably related to extension-less files creation in Explorer where you have to put . in the end of file, but not sure.

kant2002 picture kant2002 on 13 Apr 2021

So we actually have a autorest --clear-temp flag that lets you do just that.

timotheeguerin picture timotheeguerin on 14 Apr 2021
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