How to check if a given path is a file or directory?

Question

I'm building a program that should be able to take both paths to files (*.*), and directories (./, ..). I want to be able to check if the path supplied is a file, or a directory.

Answer 1

You should use std::fs::metadata:

use std::fs::metadata;

fn main() {
    let md = metadata(".").unwrap();
    println!("is dir: {}", md.is_dir());
    println!("is file: {}", md.is_file());
}

Output:

is dir: true
is file: false