What is the best way to generate a unique and short file name in Java

Question

I don\'t necessarily want to use UUIDs since they are fairly long.

The file just needs to be unique within its directory.

One thought which comes to mind is

Answer 1

I understand that I am too late to reply on this question. But I think I should put this as it seems something different from other solution.

We can concatenate threadname and current timeStamp as file name. But with this there is one issue like some thread name contains special character like "\" which can create problem in creating file name. So we can remove special charater from thread name and then concatenate thread name and time stamp

fileName = threadName(after removing special charater) + currentTimeStamp