xch

A Rust library and CLI program to exchange the content of paths.

Current release: 0.1.0

Note: Currently only runs on windows

CLI

The program xch can be used to eXCHange the content of two paths.

Install

cargo install xch

Usage

bash xch first/path second/path

After the program call, first/path will point to the previous content of second/path and vice versa. This not only works for files but also for directories or one file and a directory.

All changes are made atomically, you can never observe one change without the other (e.g. if first/path points to the old content of second/path, second/path also points to the old content of first/path).

Crate

The functionality is also available as a crate. Add xch = "0.1.0" to your Cargo.toml. Then you need to import the crate to your code Rust extern crate libxch; Then you can start exchanging the content of files Rust if let Err(e) = libxch::xch("file1", "path/to/file2") { // Error handling here }

License

Licensed under MIT license

Future

Here are some missing features that will hopefully be added in the future: - Linux support - MacOS support - *BSD support