Module paths

Various utilities for working with files and paths.

Structs

• PathAncestors

Functions

• ancestors
  Returns an iterator that walks up the directory hierarchy towards the root.
• append
  Equivalent to write(), but appends to the end instead of replacing the contents.
• bytes2path
  Converts UTF-8 bytes to a path.
• copy
  Copies a file from one location to another.
• create
  Creates a new file.
• create_dir_all
  Equivalent to std::fs::create_dir_all with better error messages.
• create_dir_all_excluded_from_backups_atomic
  Creates an excluded from cache directory atomically with its parents as needed.
• dylib_path
  Returns a list of directories that are searched for dynamic libraries.
• dylib_path_envvar
  Returns the name of the environment variable used for searching for dynamic libraries.
• exclude_from_backups_and_indexing
  Mark an existing directory as excluded from backups and indexing.
• join_paths
  Joins paths into a string suitable for the PATH environment variable.
• link_or_copy
  Hardlink (file) or symlink (dir) src to dst if possible, otherwise copy it.
• metadata
  Returns metadata for a file (follows symlinks).
• mtime
  Returns the last modification time of a file.
• mtime_recursive
  Returns the maximum mtime of the given path, recursing into subdirectories, and following symlinks.
• normalize_path
  Normalize a path, removing things like . and ...
• open
  Opens an existing file.
• path2bytes
  Converts a path to UTF-8 bytes.
• read
  Reads a file to a string.
• read_bytes
  Reads a file into a bytes vector.
• remove_dir
  Equivalent to std::fs::remove_dir with better error messages.
• remove_dir_all
  Equivalent to std::fs::remove_dir_all with better error messages.
• remove_file
  Equivalent to std::fs::remove_file with better error messages.
• resolve_executable
  Returns the absolute path of where the given executable is located based on searching the PATH environment variable.
• set_file_time_no_err
  Changes the filesystem mtime (and atime if possible) for the given file.
• set_invocation_time
  Record the current time on the filesystem (using the filesystem’s clock) using a file at the given directory. Returns the current time.
• strip_prefix_canonical
  Strips base from path.
• symlink_metadata
  Returns metadata for a file without following symlinks.
• write
  Writes a file to disk.
• write_atomic
  Writes a file to disk atomically.
• write_if_changed
  Equivalent to write(), but does not write anything if the file contents are identical to the given contents.