Hello
Friends, I have a question, and that is, are there any nodes in knime that perform Windows or operating system operations? (like the os library in Python)
Hi @alex1368 , what type of operating system operations are you wanting to perform, as this question is surprisingly quite wide-ranging?
Some OS functions are covered: such as creating folders is covered by “Create Folder”, directory listing is covered by “List Files/Folders”, moving/copying files by “Transfer Files” so you are presumably looking for something specific?
Are you wanting to be able to directly execute specific OS low-level commands, yet remain portable across different OS?
If you know java, then the java snippet/edit variables nodes can often assist with low-level operations for which you cannot find a dedicated node, and of course python scripts can do it too like you mentioned.
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Thank you for your attention
I mean to be able to do a series of activities in Windows automatically.
As at a certain time, the download manager will be activated through knime and start downloading.
Or to open an Excel file and perform a specific action.
Or to back up a specific file in a specific folder at a specific time.
I @alex1368.
As @takbb mention, KNIME is not an RPA Tool, but if you can use python support in KNIME to build small solutions.
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