Write

Introduction

Write text to a file.

Options

• file: path of the file to write to. Supports {key} placeholders.
• text: the content to write. Supports {key} placeholders.
• mode: how to write the content
• append: add text at the end of the file
• overwrite: replace the entire file contents
• prepend: insert text before the existing file contents

Examples

Append a line to a log file each time a rule fires:

{
    "type": "write",
    "mode": "append",
    "file": "D:\\logs\\processed.txt",
    "text": "{filename}\n"
}

Write the file's creation year into a sidecar file:

{
    "type": "write",
    "mode": "overwrite",
    "file": "{path}.meta",
    "text": "{created|year}"
}