# tokio::fs::metadata - Rust
API documentation for the Rust `metadata` fn in crate `tokio`.
Keywords: rust, rustlang, rust-lang, metadata

# Function tokio::fs::metadata [−] [src]

    pub async fn metadata(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Result<Metadata>

Given a path, queries the file system to get information about a file, directory, etc.

This is an async version of `std::fs::metadata`

This function will traverse symbolic links to query information about the destination file.

# Platform-specific behavior

This function currently corresponds to the `stat` function on Unix and the `GetFileAttributesEx` function on Windows. Note that, this may change in the future.

# Errors

This function will return an error in the following situations, but is not limited to just these cases:

- The user lacks permissions to perform `metadata` call on `path`.
- `path` does not exist.

# Examples

    use tokio::fs;

    #[tokio::main]
    async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
        let attr = fs::metadata("/some/file/path.txt").await?;
        // inspect attr ...
        Ok(())
    }