The Find File(s) action enables you to search for files matching a specified search criteria.

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Search Options

File Location

File Name

The file spec used during the search. The value can contain the * or ? wildcard operators.

Search Directory

The directory to search in to find the required files. The * or ? wildcard operators can be used to recursively search a directory tree, but doing so may slow down the search dramatically.

Recursive

Time Stamps

Enables searching of files matching the specified time stamps.

Size

Allows files to be found matching a certain size.

Greater than

Less than

Attributes

Allows file to be found based on the attributes set.

Behaviour

Fail Action If

Found no files matching search criteria

Fail the action if no files matching the supplied search options have been located. 

Found at least one file matching search criteria

Fail the action if any files are found using the search options. 

Set Variable

Files found

Fill the variable with the list of files which were found. 

Set variables to file names

When setting the file names in the variable, only include the file names. The directories will not be included. This can mean that duplicates can occur where the same file name is used in different directories. 

Set variables to full file paths

When setting the file names in the variable the full path to the file is given. 

Match count

Sets the variable to the number of files which matched the search criteria. 

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