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.

Installation

See installation. The package is called libelektra5-experimental.

Configuration

• binary

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

• info

  adds additional information 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

# Mount the file `file/multiline` at `system:/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.