Process files

Process files

Description

The Process Files transform copies, moves or deletes files by giving the source and target file names in the data stream.

Hop Engine	✓
Spark	?
Flink	?
Dataflow	?

Options

Option	Description
Transform name	Name of the transform.
Operation	This defines the operation: Copy, Move or Delete
Create target parent folder	When this option is checked, the target parent folder is created. Otherwise it throws an exception when the target parent folder is not existing.
Overwrite target file	When this option is checked and the target file exists, it will be overwritten. Otherwise it will not be overwritten and silently ignored.
Add target filename to result	When this option is checked, add the copied, moved or deleted files to the list of result files.
Set simulation mode	For testing purposes: No action will be taken at the end and no file will be copied, moved or deleted.
Source filename field	This defined the field that contains the complete path to the source file for copy or move or the file to be deleted.
Target filename field	This defined the field that contains the complete path to the target file. This field must not be given in the Delete mode.