topic How to Create Folder in Destination (Easy) in Talend Studio

How to Create Folder in Destination (Easy)

Sergi1 — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 09:25:13 GMT

Hello,

I just want to create a folder in my Desktop.

Currently, I am doing that with tFileCopy, which does the job, but it throws an error saying it cannot find the file. Obviously, it can't find it because I left it blank (see picture), because I DO NOT want to copy a file, just create a folder. Is there a way to do that?

I have tested other components, like tFileList or tFileTouch, but none do exactly what I need.

Is it possible to just create a folder?

Re: How to Create Folder in Destination (Easy)

MS5 — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:16:06 GMT

Hello,

It's maybe not the best solution but on my side I would have done something like :

tFixedFlowInput with 1 column empty and parameter Number of Rows set to 0
tFileOutputDelimited with the file specified in the folder you want to create, option "Don't generate empty file" checked and option "Create directory if do'nt exist" checked (these 2 options in Advanced settings tab)

=> tfixedflowinput generate 0 data, so the file is empty and so not generated but the folder is created, empty.

Re: How to Create Folder in Destination (Easy)

Sergi1 — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:37:24 GMT

Good enough, that does the job with no errors.

Thank you!

Re: How to Create Folder in Destination (Easy)

Mahamoutou — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:46:08 GMT

You could also use a single tCreateTemporaryFile component to acheive that.

You just need to specify your directory and let all as defaut.

Re: How to Create Folder in Destination (Easy)

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 01:27:36 GMT

You can also use a tSystem to execute a command.

Regards

Shong