CFFILE ACTION = "MOVE"  
Description

Moves a file from one location to another on the server.

 
Syntax
<cffile 
   action = "move"
   source = "full_path_name"
   destination = "full_path_name" 
   mode = "mode"
   attributes = "file_attributes_list"
   charset = "charset_option">
 
See also

cfdirectory

 
History

See the History section of the main cffile tag page.

 
Example

The following example moves the keymemo.doc file from the c:\files\upload\ directory to the c:\files\memo\ directory in Windows: 

<cffile 
   action = "move" 
   source = "c:\files\upload\keymemo.doc" 
   destination = "c:\files\memo\">

In this example, the destination directory is "memo."

ACTION  
  Required
 

Type of file manipulation that the tag performs.

SOURCE  
  Required
 

Pathname of the file to move.

If not an absolute path (starting a with a drive letter and a colon, or a forward or backward slash), it is relative to the ColdFusion temporary directory, which is returned by the GetTempDirectory function.
DESTINATION  
  Required
 

Pathname of the destination directory or file. If not an absolute path, it is relative to the source directory.

MODE  
  Optional
 

Applies only to UNIX and Linux. Permissions. Octal values of UNIX chmod command. Assigned to owner, group, and other, respectively. For example:

  • 644: assigns read/write permission to owner; read permission to group and other.
  • 777: assigns read/write/execute permission to all.
ATTRIBUTES  
  Optional
 

Applies to Windows. A comma-delimited list of attributes to set on the file.

If omitted, the file's attributes are maintained.

Each value must be specified explicitly. For example, if you specify attributes = "readOnly", all other attributes are overwritten.

  • readOnly
  • hidden
  • normal
CHARSET  
  Optional
 
Default value: "JVM default file character set"

The character encoding in which the file contents is encoded. The following list includes commonly used values:

  • utf-8
  • iso-8859-1
  • windows-1252
  • us-ascii
  • shift_jis
  • iso-2022-jp
  • euc-jp
  • euc-kr
  • big5
  • euc-cn
  • utf-16

For more information character encodings, seewww.w3.org/International/O-charset.html.