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Various utilities for working with files and paths.

Structs

Functions

Returns an iterator that walks up the directory hierarchy towards the root.

Equivalent to write(), but appends to the end instead of replacing the contents.

Converts UTF-8 bytes to a path.

Copies a file from one location to another.

Creates a new file.

Equivalent to std::fs::create_dir_all with better error messages.

Creates an excluded from cache directory atomically with its parents as needed.

Returns a list of directories that are searched for dynamic libraries.

Returns the name of the environment variable used for searching for dynamic libraries.

Mark an existing directory as excluded from backups and indexing.

Joins paths into a string suitable for the PATH environment variable.

Hardlink (file) or symlink (dir) src to dst if possible, otherwise copy it.

Returns the last modification time of a file.

Returns the maximum mtime of the given path, recursing into subdirectories, and following symlinks.

Normalize a path, removing things like . and ...

Opens an existing file.

Converts a path to UTF-8 bytes.

Reads a file to a string.

Reads a file into a bytes vector.

Equivalent to std::fs::remove_dir with better error messages.

Recursively remove all files and directories at the given directory.

Equivalent to std::fs::remove_file with better error messages.

Returns the absolute path of where the given executable is located based on searching the PATH environment variable.

Changes the filesystem mtime (and atime if possible) for the given file.

Record the current time on the filesystem (using the filesystem’s clock) using a file at the given directory. Returns the current time.

Strips base from path.

Writes a file to disk.

Equivalent to write(), but does not write anything if the file contents are identical to the given contents.