files.md

title	timestamp	author	published	description	tags
Files - dealing with files in Rust	2024-04-26 10:50:01 -0700	szabgab	true	All the articles dealing with files. Reading, writing, etc.	File

Tutorial, simple use-cases with files

• Write to a file

• Read from a file

• Read content of a text file - slurp mode

• Read line-by-line

• Append to a file

• Get the size of a file

• Update a file

• Create a temporary directory

• Read binary file

• Guessing MIME-Type, setting Content-Type based on file extension

• Getting file extension in Rust using PathBuf

• Set the file extension in Rust

• Testing with tempfiles and environment variables

• Command line counter with plain text file storage in Rust

Special cases with files

• Disk usage - size of files
• Dealing with YAML files.
• Dealing with JSON files.
• Dealing with TOML files.