File System Actions
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.
Available Activities
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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Concatenates the contents of two or more files and outputs the result to a single destination file. |
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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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Retrieves data currently populated into a dataset and outputs the data onto a comma-separated values (CSV) file. |
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Empties the recycle bin of all drives on the system. |
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Retrieves key information about a file folder or volume and stores the results into a 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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Joins together (merges) files previously split into pieces with use of the Split file activity. |
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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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Sets the attributes of one or more files specified. |
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Synchronizes two folders either uni-directionally (one-way) or bi-directionally (both ways). |
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Writes the specified text string to a file. |