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SnapWizard's avatar
SnapWizard
New Contributor III
4 years ago

Create a file path with a date in File Writer snap

I have a pipeline that generates an output file that I would like to save in S3 with a file path of YYYY/MM/dd/file_name… e.g. S3://bucket/2023/08/09/file_name.csv. When I do this: “s3:///b...
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koryknick's avatar
koryknick
Employee
4 years ago

Personally I like pipe.startTime over Date.now() since it is consistent throughout your pipeline execution and correlates to your pipeline execution time in the Dashboard - try this:
"s3:///bucket/" + pipe.startTime.toLocaleDateString( { format : "yyyy/MM/dd" } ) + "/filename.csv"
This should yield what you’re looking for.