pub async fn rename<P: AsRef<Path>, Q: AsRef<Path>>(
from: P,
to: Q,
) -> Result<()>
Expand description
Renames a file or directory to a new location.
If a file or directory already exists at the target location, it will be overwritten by this operation.
This function is an async version of std::fs::rename
.
§Errors
An error will be returned in the following situations:
from
does not point to an existing file or directory.from
andto
are on different filesystems.- The current process lacks permissions to do the rename operation.
- Some other I/O error occurred.
§Examples
use async_std::fs;
fs::rename("a.txt", "b.txt").await?;