Module fs

Filesystem manipulation operations.

This module contains basic methods to manipulate the contents of the local filesystem. All methods in this module represent cross-platform filesystem operations. Extra platform-specific functionality can be found in the extension traits of std::os::$platform.

Structs

DirBuilder

A builder used to create directories in various manners.

DirEntry

Entries returned by the ReadDir iterator.

File

An object providing access to an open file on the filesystem.

FileTimes

Representation of the various timestamps on a file.

FileType

A structure representing a type of file with accessors for each file type. It is returned by Metadata::file_type method.

Metadata

Metadata information about a file.

OpenOptions

Options and flags which can be used to configure how a file is opened.

Permissions

Representation of the various permissions on a file.

ReadDir

Iterator over the entries in a directory.

Enums

TryLockErrorExperimental

An enumeration of possible errors which can occur while trying to acquire a lock from the try_lock method and try_lock_shared method on a File.

Functions

canonicalize

Returns the canonical, absolute form of a path with all intermediate components normalized and symbolic links resolved.

copy

Copies the contents of one file to another. This function will also copy the permission bits of the original file to the destination file.

create_dir

Creates a new, empty directory at the provided path

create_dir_all

Recursively create a directory and all of its parent components if they are missing.

exists

Returns Ok(true) if the path points at an existing entity.

hard_link

Creates a new hard link on the filesystem.

metadata

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

read

Reads the entire contents of a file into a bytes vector.

read_dir

Returns an iterator over the entries within a directory.

read_link

Reads a symbolic link, returning the file that the link points to.

read_to_string

Reads the entire contents of a file into a string.

remove_dir

Removes an empty directory.

remove_dir_all

Removes a directory at this path, after removing all its contents. Use carefully!

remove_file

Removes a file from the filesystem.

rename

Renames a file or directory to a new name, replacing the original file if to already exists.

set_permissions

Changes the permissions found on a file or a directory.

soft_linkDeprecated

Creates a new symbolic link on the filesystem.

symlink_metadata

Queries the metadata about a file without following symlinks.

write

Writes a slice as the entire contents of a file.