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Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook - Second Edition

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Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration is the premier open source ETL tool, providing easy, fast, and effective ways to move and transform data. While PDI is relatively easy to pick up, it can take time to learn the best practices so you can design your transformations to process data faster and more efficiently. If you are looking for clear and practical recipes that will advance your skills in Kettle, then this is the book for you. Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition guides you through the features of explains the Kettle features in detail and provides easy to follow recipes on file management and databases that can throw a curve ball to even the most experienced developers. Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition provides updates to the material covered in the first edition as well as new recipes that show you how to use some of the key features of PDI that have been released since the publication of the first edition. You will learn how to work with various data sources – from relational and NoSQL databases, flat files, XML files, and more. The book will also cover best practices that you can take advantage of immediately within your own solutions, like building reusable code, data quality, and plugins that can add even more functionality. Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition will provide you with the recipes that cover the common pitfalls that even seasoned developers can find themselves facing. You will also learn how to use various data sources in Kettle as well as advanced features.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Copying or moving one or more files


The Copy Files job entry allows you to copy one or more files or folders. Let's see this step in action. Assume that you have a folder with a set of files, and you want to copy them to three folders depending on their extensions: you have one folder for text files, another for Excel files, and the last one for the rest of the files.

Getting ready

You will need a directory named sampleFiles containing a set of files with different extensions, including .txt and .xls. You will also need three destination directories, named txtFiles, xlsFiles, and OtherFiles.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new job and drop a Start job entry into the canvas.

  2. Add a Copy Files job entry. In this entry, you will add the directions for copying the files into the three available destination folders. Double-click on the entry to open it.

  3. In the File/Folder source textbox, type or browse for the sampleFiles folder. In the File/Folder destination textbox, type or browse...