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swright
New Contributor III
6 years ago

Move/renaming files on SFTP server

I’m designing a pipeline to get a data file from an sftp server, use the data, and then rename the file to a filename with date and time and move it to an archive subfolder. I am attempting to use ...
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mtran21
New Contributor III
5 years ago

I am in the same boat for this situation now. I looked at that script and it looks like a very old way doing this.

Is there a better way? Using a snap to rename files have been downloaded?

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swright
New Contributor III
5 years ago

Hi Michael,

Yes. I found that the “File Operation” snap with “Move” as the operation worked for me:

Regards,

Scott

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    mtran21
    New Contributor III
    5 years ago

    Thanks @swright , I am attempting to use File Operation to rename files in the same directory. Any idea if this File Operation will do that?

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      mtran21
      New Contributor III
      5 years ago

      I got it done using File Operation