A Rust library and CLI program to exchange the content of paths.
Current release: 0.2.0
Note: Currently only runs on windows or on Linux using nightly rust
The program xch can be used to eXCHange the content of two paths.
cargo install xch
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).
The functionality is also available as a crate. Add xch = "0.2.0" 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
}
Licensed under MIT license
Here are some missing features that will hopefully be added in the future: - Linux support - MacOS support - *BSD support