Folders and Files

Folders and files are two out of the most commonly used client inspectors. You can use them both as plurals.

Folders

The folder object refers to a folder in the Windows operating system or to a directory in the UNIX and Linux operating systems.

You can query the parent folder of a specific file:

or you can query the parent folder of a specific folder:

in both cases the resulting type is a folder type.

The following properties, instead, return a string type result:

On Windows systems you can use the predefined keywords windows folder and system folder that return a folder object corresponding to the windows or system folder. Because these folders are located in different locations for different operating systems, these commands are very useful.

Files

You can identify a file to query either by specifying its name and the name of the folder that contains the file or by specifying the complete path to the file, as follows:

Another way to identify files on a Windows computer, if they are the executable files of registered applications, is using the regapp inspector. For example, if you are looking for the path to the Firefox executable file, you can query:

These examples show the properties of the file object that you can query:

The sha1 inspector stands for Secure Hash Algorithm, and it is a simple checksum that is used to verify the integrity of downloaded files. You will use it along with the size inspector to manage downloads in a Fixlet action.

You can also query the content of the lines included in a specific file as follows: