Function `metadata`

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

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

This function will traverse symbolic links to query information about the destination file. To query metadata about the path itself without following symbolic links, use symlink_metadata.

Platform-specific behavior

This function currently corresponds to the stat function on Unix and the GetFileInformationByHandle 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.
path is a symbolic link, but the destination file cannot be resolved.

Examples

use std::fs;

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