Working with the filesystem

There may be instances where we must create, delete, move, or rename files and folders. Automation Anywhere has two packages: one for files and one for folders. In the following screenshot, you can see the actions that are available for managing the filesystem in Automation Anywhere:

Figure 9.25 – File/Folder package and its actions

Our current bot creates seven subfolders, with each folder containing a CSV file called output.csv. To get some hands-on experience with files and folders, we are going to automate the following process:

1. Rename every output.csv file to its subfolder name.
2. Move the renamed file(s) to C:\Hands-On-RPA-with-AA-Sample-Data\Chapter09_Output.
3. Delete the empty subfolder(s).

You may have noticed that there isn't a file move action. In order to achieve this, we will perform a copy and delete. We will break this walk-through into five sections to make it easier to follow:

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