Elektra  0.9.2
Plugin: file
  • infos = Information about the file plugin is in keys below
  • infos/author = Thomas Waser thoma.nosp@m.s.wa.nosp@m.ser@l.nosp@m.ibel.nosp@m.ektra.nosp@m..org
  • infos/licence = BSD
  • infos/needs =
  • infos/provides = storage/file
  • infos/recommends =
  • infos/placements = getstorage setstorage
  • infos/status = specific unittest tested nodep libc configurable preview experimental
  • infos/metadata =
  • infos/description = reads complete file into a key

Introduction

The file plugin reads the content of a file and stores it into the parent key.

Configuration

  • binary

    treats the file as a binary file instead of a text file

  • info

    adds additional informations about the file as metadata to the parent key.

    • info/size filesize
    • info/ctime time of last status change
    • info/atime time of last access
    • info/mtime time of last modification
    • info/uid user ID of owner
    • info/gid group ID of owner
    • info/mode protection
    • info/inode inode number

Usage

kdb mount file /testfile file

Dependencies

None.

Examples

`` @section autotoc_md221 Mount the filefile/multilineatsystem/tests/file` sudo kdb mount "$PWD/src/plugins/file/file/singleline" system/tests/file file info=

Check the content of the file

kdb get system/tests/file #> this is a single line testfile

List available attributes of the mounted file

kdb meta-ls system/tests/file #> info/atime #> info/ctime #> info/gid #> info/inode #> info/mode #> info/mtime #> info/size #> info/uid

Check out the file’s permissions

kdb meta-get system/tests/file info/mode

STDOUT-REGEX: 1006[46]4

Unmount the file

sudo kdb umount system/tests/file ```

Limitations

None.