Linux File Info - Linux Entity Inspector

This crate is for gathering useful infos about linux entities(files, folders or symlinks) with developer friendly way.

This crate is parallel crate of windows-file-info crate, which developed for handling same tasks on windows and developed by me. If you need an entity inspector for Windows, check out that crate.

It basically makes "sudo ls -l" calls with different ways and parses output nicely.

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It primarily uses that struct about all entities:

#[derive(Debug)]
pub struct LinuxEntity {
    pub entity_name: String, // current name of the entity
    pub entity_type: String, // type of the entity, file, folder or symlink.
    pub owner: String, // owning user of the  entity
    pub group: String, // 
    pub hardlink: u8,
    pub permission: u16, // permission as numbers.
    pub size: i32, // as bytes.
    pub last_change_date: String, // example: Jan 12 20:49
}

sample uses:

Disclaimer: You can give absolute paths to all other_folder_info() and file_info() and other functions.

use linux_file_info::*;

fn main(){
    let current_folder = current_folder_info();

    // assuming you have "hello-everyone" folder near to the that project's folder:
    let other_folder = other_folder_info("../hello-everyone");

    // checking /etc/nftables.conf file with absolute path. It also gets info of symlinks:
    let check_cargo_file = file_info("/etc/nftables.conf");

    // checking if Cargo.toml is file:
    let cargo_toml_is_file = is_file("Cargo.toml");

    // checking if src is folder:
    let src_is_folder = is_folder("src");

    // checking if Cargo.lock is a symlink:
    let cargo_lock_is_symlink = is_symlink("Cargo.lock");

    // checking if sfsdfsfds is exist:
    let sfsdfsfds_is_exist = is_exist("sfsdfsfds");

    // checking the current user:
    let who_am_i = get_current_user();


}

Warning: current_folder_info() function works based on your current directory. If you run this on root directory of your computer, you'll take this kind of response:

[
    LinuxEntity {
        entity_name: "Docker",
        entity_type: "folder",
        owner: "root",
        group: "root",
        hardlink: 3,
        permission: 755,
        size: 4096,
        last_change_date: "Jul 8 2023",
    },
    LinuxEntity {
        entity_name: "bin",
        entity_type: "symlink",
        owner: "root",
        group: "root",
        hardlink: 1,
        permission: 777,
        size: 7,
        last_change_date: "May 2 2023",
    },
    LinuxEntity {
        entity_name: "boot",
        entity_type: "folder",
        owner: "root",
        group: "root",
        hardlink: 2,
        permission: 755,
        size: 4096,
        last_change_date: "Apr 18 2022",
    },
    LinuxEntity {
        entity_name: "dev",
        entity_type: "folder",
        owner: "root",
        group: "root",
        hardlink: 16,
        permission: 755,
        size: 3560,
        last_change_date: "Jan 13 15:33",
    },
    LinuxEntity {
        entity_name: "etc",
        entity_type: "folder",
        owner: "root",
        group: "root",
        hardlink: 81,
        permission: 755,
        size: 4096,
        last_change_date: "Jan 13 15:33",
    },
    LinuxEntity {
        entity_name: "home",
        entity_type: "folder",
        owner: "root",
        group: "root",
        hardlink: 3,
        permission: 755,
        size: 4096,
        last_change_date: "Jul 8 2023",
    },

    // other entities
]

Another Example, if you run other_folder_info() function on your computer's main directory with "./etc/ssh" parameter you'll take that kind of answer:

[
    LinuxEntity {
        entity_name: "ssh_config",
        entity_type: "file",
        owner: "root",
        group: "root",
        hardlink: 1,
        permission: 644,
        size: 1650,
        last_change_date: "Nov 23 2022",
    },
    LinuxEntity {
        entity_name: "ssh_config.d",
        entity_type: "folder",
        owner: "root",
        group: "root",
        hardlink: 2,
        permission: 755,
        size: 4096,
        last_change_date: "Nov 23 2022",
    },
]

You have 2 options for giving absolute and more reliable paths:

1 - You can give absolute path on the parameter like this: other_folder_info("/sys/dev/block"), file_info("/sys/dev/block/1:0")

2 - You can use that functions with defining some kind of bash variables which equals some paths(like your current user's home folder or /root folder) and giving other paths depending on that variable.