As in the previous challenge, the wording is deliberately vague. You can take this to mean anything you want, as long as the end result is the name of a file. The file may exist, or it may not exist, or its existence may be indeterminate. The choice is up to you.

In the spirit of stretching the bounds of the question...

The other entries all seem to assume the purpose is to get a file for temporary purposes. But that's never stated. So the simplest way to get a file would be: 

$file = $0;

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Of course, that doesn't guarantee you a file either: 

% perl -e 'print "$0\n"'
-e

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So how do you guarantee that you get a file? Well... I don't think you can. It's at least theoretically possible that your filesystem has no files in it. Or even that you don't have a filesystem.

But then, it doesn't have to exist. The question even says its existence may be indeterminate, so it doesn't even have to be accessible at all. 

$file = "/foo";

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In reply to Re: TIMTOWTDI Challenge: Create a filename by fullermd
in thread TIMTOWTDI Challenge: Create a filename by Tanktalus

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