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URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/show/files
Shows information about files in KiFS. Can be used for individual files, or to show all files in a given directory.

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Input Parameter Description

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paths
array of strings
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.
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options
map of string to strings
Optional parameters.The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

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Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:
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status
String
‘OK’ or ‘ERROR’
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message
String
Empty if success or an error message
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data_type
String
‘show_files_response’ or ‘none’ in case of an error
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data
String
Empty string
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data_str
JSON or String
This embedded JSON represents the result of the /show/files endpoint:Empty string in case of an error.