Re: IFS Dir file listing

Vern,

One suggestion for improvement... if you are writing to a record-oriented file (such as a physical file member) I would use the Rfile QShell tool rather than just redirecting to a member. Sometimes redirecting to a PF member doesn't work quite right. (I can't remember the exact circumstances off the top of my head where it fails)

QSH CMD('ls -A1 / | Rfile -wQ yourlib/yourfile')

If outputting to a stream file, however, them using redirects is perfect.

-SK



On 8/5/2014 4:44 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

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