Identifying unsafe file and directory permissions

Retrieving information about a file or directory is a common task in programming and Go provides a platform-independent way to perform this operation. The os.Stat function is an essential part of the os package, which acts as an interface to operating system functionality. When called, the os.Stat function returns a FileInfo interface and an error. The FileInfo interface contains various file metadata, such as its name, size, permissions, and modification times.

Here’s the signature of the os.Stat function:

func Stat(name string) (FileInfo, error)

The name parameter is the path to the file or directory you want to obtain information about.

Let’s discover how we could use os.Stat to get information about a file:

package main
import (
     "fmt"
     "os"
)
func main() {
     info, err := os.Stat("example.txt...