File Delete Action

Plugin version: 2.11.0

Deletes a file or files.

Configuration

Property

Macro Enabled?

Description

Property

Macro Enabled?

Description

Path to desired file(s) to be removed

Yes

Required. The full path of the file or files that need to be deleted. If the path points to a file, the file will be removed. If the path points to a directory with no regex specified, the directory and all of its contents will be removed. If a regex is specified, only the files and directories matching that regex will be removed.

Wildcard

Yes

Optional. Wildcard regular expression to filter the files in the source directory that will be removed.

Continue Pipeline Upon Error

No

Indicates if the pipeline should continue if the delete process fails. If all files are not successfully deleted, the action will not re-create the files already deleted.

Default is false.

Example

This example deletes all files ending in .txt from /source/path:

Property

Value

Property

Value

Path to desired file(s) to be removed

hdfs://example.com:8020/source/path

Wildcard

.*\.txt

Continue Pipeline Upon Error

false



 

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