# Directory operations

### Check if directory exists

Determains whether directory at specified path exists.

| Parameter | Description        |
| --------- | ------------------ |
| Path      | The path to check. |

**Output**: Simple value,*True* if directory exists. *False* otherwise.

**Since**: 6.3

### Create directory

Creates a directory at the FTP server. It is not possible to create several levels of directories in one step. If you want to create the directory *./dirA/dirB*, the directory *./dirA* must exist. Otherwise you have to do it in two steps; first creates directory *./dirA* and the second one created *./dirA/dirB*.

| Parameter   | Description                      |
| ----------- | -------------------------------- |
| Remote path | Path to the directory to create. |

**Output**: No output.

**Since**: 6.3

### Delete empty directory

Deletes specified empty directory. Note if directory contain a file it will return an error.

| Parameter   | Description                 |
| ----------- | --------------------------- |
| Remote path | Path to directory to delete |

**Output**: No output.

**Since**: 6.3

### List directory

Lists all files and directories in a specified path.

| Parameter           | Description                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Remote path         | Path to list.                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Mask                | Mask to use when filtering items in directory. Example *\*.txt*. Regular expressions can also be used by prefixing with *regex:*, example regex:\[A\|B].\* to list all files starting with *A* or *B* |
| Case sensitive      | Specifies whether to ignore casing or not.                                                                                                                                                            |
| Include files       | Specifies whether to include files in the listing.                                                                                                                                                    |
| Include directories | Specifies whether to include directories in the listing.                                                                                                                                              |
| Recursive           | Specifies whether to also search in subdirectories.                                                                                                                                                   |

**Output**: A table consisting of records with the following structure:

| Member | Description                        |
| ------ | ---------------------------------- |
| Name   | The name of the file or directory. |
| Size   | The size, in bytes, of the item.   |

**Since**: 6.3


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