fileinfo

File Info

A go package that extracts and stores basic metadata about a file.

Installation

Assuming a correctly configured Go toolchain:

go get github.com/cpliakas/fileinfo

Usage

The code below writes a file's MD5 sum to STDOUT.

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/cpliakas/fileinfo"
)

func main() {
	i, err := fileinfo.New("/path/to/file")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer i.Close()

	h, _ := i.Hash()
	fmt.Println(h)
}