Function std::fs::metadata

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

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][changes]. [changes]: ../io/index.html#platform-specific-behavior

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

use std::fs;

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