Function std::fs::metadata [−] [src]

pub fn metadata<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P) -> Result<Metadata>

1.0.0

Given a path, query the file system to get information about a file, directory, etc.

This function will traverse symbolic links to query information about the destination file.

Platform-specific behavior

This function currently corresponds to the stat function on Unix and the GetFileAttributesEx function on Windows. Note that, this may change in the future.

Errors

This function will return an error in the following situations, but is not limited to just these cases:

The user lacks permissions to perform metadata call on path.
path does not exist.

Examples

fn main() { fn foo() -> std::io::Result<()> { use std::fs; let attr = try!(fs::metadata("/some/file/path.txt")); // inspect attr ... Ok(()) } }

use std::fs;

let attr = try!(fs::metadata("/some/file/path.txt"));
// inspect attr ...