# Directory operations

### Check if directory exists <a href="#check-if-directory-exists" id="check-if-directory-exists"></a>

Determains whether directory at specified path exists.

#### Parameters <a href="#parameters" id="parameters"></a>

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

#### Output <a href="#output" id="output"></a>

Simple value,'True' if directory exists. 'False' otherwise.

#### Since <a href="#since" id="since"></a>

6.0

### Create directory <a href="#create-directory" id="create-directory"></a>

Creates all the directories at specified path.

#### Parameters <a href="#parameters" id="parameters"></a>

| Parameter                                          | Description                                                                                                                                                    |
| -------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Path                                               | The path to create. Allow subdirectories on path will also be created if they do not exist.                                                                    |
| Allow Everyone to have full control over directory | If set to True, all users have full control over directory. If set to False, only the user the Connector is running as can access the directory. Default True. |

#### Output <a href="#output" id="output"></a>

Simple value containing the path to the newly created directory.

#### Since <a href="#since" id="since"></a>

6.0

### Delete directory <a href="#delete-directory" id="delete-directory"></a>

Deletes directory at provided path. Directory must be empty unless 'Also delete all subdirectories (and files)' is true.

#### Parameters <a href="#parameters" id="parameters"></a>

| Parameter                                  | Description                                                                                                                       |
| ------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Path                                       | The path to delete.                                                                                                               |
| Also delete all subdirectories (and files) | If set to True, all files and subdirectories will be deleted. If set to False, the directory must be empty in order to delete it. |

#### Output <a href="#output" id="output"></a>

Simple value,'True' if directory was successfully deleted. 'False' otherwise.

#### Since <a href="#since" id="since"></a>

6.0

### Delete files in directory <a href="#delete-files-in-directory" id="delete-files-in-directory"></a>

Deletes all files in directory matching specified pattern.

#### Parameters <a href="#parameters" id="parameters"></a>

| Parameter      | Description                                                                                                  |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Path           | The path to the directory to delete files from. Path can be UNC path or local file path.                     |
| Search pattern | Pattern to match files against. Supports wildcards \* and ? but not regular expressions. Default value "\*". |

#### Output <a href="#output" id="output"></a>

Simple value, number of files deleted.

#### Since <a href="#since" id="since"></a>

6.3

### Get all subdirectories of directory (full path) <a href="#get-all-subdirectories-of-directory-full-path" id="get-all-subdirectories-of-directory-full-path"></a>

Gets the full path of all subdirectories of given directory.

#### Parameters <a href="#parameters" id="parameters"></a>

| Parameter                              | Description                                                                                                        |
| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Path                                   | The path to get file names from. Path can be UNC path or local file path.                                          |
| Search pattern                         | Pattern to match directories against. Supports wildcards \* and ? but not regular expressions. Default value "\*". |
| Also get directories in subdirectories | Specifies whether to also include directories in subdirectories of Path. Default value False.                      |

#### Output <a href="#output" id="output"></a>

Table with column 'value' where each row is a full path to directory in given directory.

#### Since <a href="#since" id="since"></a>

6.0

### Get directory modification times <a href="#get-directory-modification-times" id="get-directory-modification-times"></a>

Gets a record containing directory modification times.

#### Parameters <a href="#parameters" id="parameters"></a>

| Parameter | Description                               |
| --------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| Path      | The path to get modification times from.  |
| As UTC    | True to get the modification times in UTC |

#### Output <a href="#output" id="output"></a>

Record with members 'CreationTime', 'LastWriteTime' and 'LastAccessTime'.

#### Since <a href="#since" id="since"></a>

6.0

### Get files in directory (full path) <a href="#get-files-in-directory-full-path" id="get-files-in-directory-full-path"></a>

Gets the full path of all files in given directory.

#### Parameters <a href="#parameters" id="parameters"></a>

| Parameter                        | Description                                                                                                  |
| -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Path                             | The path to get file names from. Path can be UNC path or local file path.                                    |
| Search pattern                   | Pattern to match files against. Supports wildcards \* and ? but not regular expressions. Default value "\*". |
| Also get files in subdirectories | Specifies whether to also include files in subdirectories of Path. Default value False.                      |

#### Output <a href="#output" id="output"></a>

Table with column 'value' where each row is a full path to file in given directory.

#### Since <a href="#since" id="since"></a>

6.0

### Get name of all subdirectories of directory <a href="#get-name-of-all-subdirectories-of-directory" id="get-name-of-all-subdirectories-of-directory"></a>

Gets the names of all directories in given directory.

#### Parameters <a href="#parameters" id="parameters"></a>

| Parameter      | Description                                                                                    |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Path           | The path to get directory names from. Path can be UNC path or local file path.                 |
| Search pattern | Pattern to match directories against. Supports wildcards \* and ? but not regular expressions. |

#### Output <a href="#output" id="output"></a>

Table with column 'value' where each row is the name of a directory in given directory.

#### Since <a href="#since" id="since"></a>

6.0

### Get name of files in directory <a href="#get-name-of-files-in-directory" id="get-name-of-files-in-directory"></a>

Gets the names (including extension) of all files in given directory.

#### Parameters <a href="#parameters" id="parameters"></a>

| Parameter      | Description                                                                              |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Path           | The path to get file names from. Path can be UNC path or local file path.                |
| Search pattern | Pattern to match files against. Supports wildcards \* and ? but not regular expressions. |

#### Output <a href="#output" id="output"></a>

Table with column 'value' where each row is the name of a file in given directory.

#### Since <a href="#since" id="since"></a>

6.0

### Move directory <a href="#move-directory" id="move-directory"></a>

Moves a directory to a new location.

#### Parameters <a href="#parameters" id="parameters"></a>

| Parameter                                    | Description                                                                                                                                            |
| -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Source path                                  | The path to directory to move. Path can be UNC path or local file path.                                                                                |
| Destination path                             | The path to directory to move. Path can be UNC path or local file path.                                                                                |
| Overwrite destination directory if it exists | If set to True and destination path already exists, it is overwritten. If set to false and destination path already exists, no move operation is done. |

#### Output <a href="#output" id="output"></a>

Simple value, 'True' if directory was successfully moved. 'False' otherwise.

#### Since <a href="#since" id="since"></a>

6.0


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