Find operation

Searches for files and directories in the file system of the LiveCycle Server.

For information about the General and Route Evaluation property groups, see Common operation properties.

Input properties

Properties for specifying search parameters.

Directory

A string value that represents the name of the directory in which to search. The scope of the search includes the directory that you specify (the scope does not include subdirectories). You need to provide the absolute path to the directory.

Regular Expression

A string value that represents the regular expression used to match the file and directory names. The default is .* that matches any file and directory name. For example, if you search for abc.*, the search results will include files and directories that contain abc in their name. For more information about using regular expressions, see Regular expressions syntax.

Match Directories

A boolean value that indicates whether to find matching directories. A value of True causes directory matches to be returned, and False causes no search for directories to occur. The default is True.

To specify a literal value of True for this property, select Match Directories. To specify a literal value of False, deselect Match Directories.

Match Files

A boolean value that indicates whether to find matching files. A value of True causes file matches to be returned, and False causes no search for files to occur. The default is True.

To specify a literal value of True for this property, select Match Files. To specify a literal value of False, deselect Match Files.

Output properties

Properties for specifying where to save results.

Results

(Optional) The location to save the results of the search. The data type is list. The list value contains string values that represent the directory and file names.

For information about retrieving values from a list, see Accessing data in data collections.

Exceptions

The exception event attached to this operation can receive FileUtilsException exceptions.