Re: IFS Dir file listing

Then you can keep it simple with something like this, after you create the outfile or add a member to one -

qsh cmd('ls -A1 /your/path > /qsys.lib, etc.')

Then read the outfile in your RPG - ba-da-bing!

If the files will always have the same extension, you can use wildcards, as here - I'll use xml as the extension -

qsh cmd('ls -A1 /your/path/*.xml > etc.')

If you have more than one extension, run the qsh command for each additional one and use >> to ADD to the outfile.

Good luck
Vern

On 8/5/2014 4:55 PM, Buddy McClean wrote:

Thanks,
Actually I will be doing it for a known directory in the root.

Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 8/5/2014 4:44 PM >>>

Hi

If you need only the contents of the root, then you can use the ls
command in QShell and redirect output to a PF. The PF has to be a flat
file member or a source file member.

In CL, first create the PF, then run the QSH command -

CRTPF YOURLIB/YOURFILE RCDLEN(256)

QSH CMD('ls -A1 / > /qsys.lib/yourlib.lib/yourfile.file/yourfile.mbr')

That will put each file and directory on each line, including those with
a dot in the first position.

If you make the options value be -AF1, then the last character of the
names will tell you if the name is a directory or regular file or some
other kind of thing - look up the ls function in QShell documentation -
I forget.

There's a way to tell it to go down through subdirectories, but you
don't want to do that from the root, right?

HTH
Vern

On 8/5/2014 3:51 PM, Buddy McClean wrote:

Good Day,
What is the simplest way ( even if cumbersome ) to get/create a list of filenames contained in an IFS root directory, to be used as input by an ILE program. A batch program.
FTP is putting files in a directory and I want to know the name so I can read via xml-into.
Thanks