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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# showFiles

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                <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1ShowFilesResponse">ShowFilesResponse</a> kinetica.Kinetica.showFiles </td>
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      <p>Shows information about files in <a href="/content/tools/kifs/" target="_top">KiFS</a>. </p>
      <p>Can be used for individual files, or to show all files in a given directory.</p>

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              <td>File paths to show. Each path can be a KiFS directory name, or a full path to a KiFS file. File paths may contain wildcard characters after the KiFS directory delimiter. Accepted wildcard characters are asterisk (\*) to represent any string of zero or more characters, and question mark (?) to indicate a single character.</td>
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L60098">60098</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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      <p>Shows information about files in <a href="/content/tools/kifs/" target="_top">KiFS</a>. </p>
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L60057">60057</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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      <p>Shows information about files in <a href="/content/tools/kifs/" target="_top">KiFS</a>. </p>
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              <td>File paths to show. Each path can be a KiFS directory name, or a full path to a KiFS file. File paths may contain wildcard characters after the KiFS directory delimiter. Accepted wildcard characters are asterisk (\*) to represent any string of zero or more characters, and question mark (?) to indicate a single character.</td>
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L60121">60121</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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      <p>Shows information about files in <a href="/content/tools/kifs/" target="_top">KiFS</a>. </p>
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L60075">60075</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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