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File System |
Description: A file system is a complete hierarchical directory structure of files and directories including a root directory and any subdirectories and files beneath it. Some of the most important system management operations deal with file systems, specifically, creating and securing file systems, allocating system space available to users and backing up file systems to guard against data loss.
File System action encompasses a comprehensive list of activities for automating all of the operations mentioned above and many more. Other activities include compressing/decompressing files, retrieving file checksum and other properties, splitting or joining files, setting file attributes and a number of folder specific operations such as creating and synchronizing folders.
The following table briefly describes the available activities for this action arranged in alphabetical order. Click the appropriate link for more details regarding each activity.
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Changes the current folder or "working directory" for the running task in operating systems such as Unix, DOS and Windows. |
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Concatenates the contents of two or more files and outputs the result to a single destination file. |
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Copies one or more folders/files from the source path to the destination path. |
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Creates a folder. If the folder specified is a sub-folder and the parent folder does not exist, then it will also be created. |
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Reads data from a comma-separated values (CSV) file (although the separator character does not necessarily have to be a comma) and populates a dataset with results. |
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Retrieves data currently populated into a dataset and outputs the data onto a comma-separated values (CSV) file. |
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Deletes the folder(s) or file(s) specified. |
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Empties the recycle bin of all drives on the system. |
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Generates a hash (checksum) value for a file and places it into the specified variable. |
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Retrieves key information about a file folder or volume and stores the results into an variable or dataset. To specify more than one file, use wildcard characters (e.g.,* or ?). To specify multiple files or wildcard masks, separate them with a pipe symbol (e.g.,c:\*.txt|c:\*.bak). |
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Retrieves a file's metadata and populates a dataset with resulting values. |
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Joins together (merges) files previously split into pieces with use of the Split file activity. |
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Moves one or more folders or files from the source path to the destination path. |
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Reads data from a file (usually a text file) and places the data in a variable so it may be used in subsequent task steps or employed in a repetitive process using appropriate Loop actions. |
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Renames one or more folders or files from a source path to a destination path. |
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Sets the attributes of one or more files specified. |
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Splits the specified file into pieces (or sections) of a fixed size. The pieces can later be re-joined using the Join File action. |
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Synchronizes two folders either uni-directionally (one-way) or bi-directionally (both ways). |
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"Touches" one or more files in order to update their creation, last modified and/or last accessed date and time with the selected date/time. |
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Writes the specified text string to a file. |