Hi, I’m running Kubo v0.14.0 and would like to know what’s the correct and reliable way to learn the type of an IPFS path. That is, if it is a UnixFS object, and if it’s a directory or a file.
I know of /v0/ls but that doesn’t return the type of the path itself, only of the links. Plus I don’t know beforehand if the path is even UnixFS, the call may result in an error…
Couldn’t find any other relevant endpoint on the docs: Kubo RPC API | IPFS Docs
ipfs files stats /ipfs/CID
It’s working, thanks a lot!
But I thought all of the /v0/files/* were only for MFS, nothing else. Looking at ipfs files --help it says “Interact with unixfs files.” but I don’t remember this… Maybe it has changed since I first started using it.
BTW what happens if the path doesn’t point to an UnixFS object? I don’t think I have any to try here…
the files namespace do is MFS.
However if you prefix paths with /ipfs/ the MFS code recognise they are normal IPFS locations.
You can do this for example ipfs files cp /ipfs/foo /bar to “copy” (it just add the link) a file to your MFS.
Yeah that makes sense. Thanks again!