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Using <CFDIRECTORY>

After you're familiar with <CFFILE>'s file-management ACTIONs, the companion tag <CFDIRECTORY> is a breeze to master. It supports only four ACTIONs, as listed in Table 18.4. All the ACTIONs use the associated attribute DIRECTORY to specify the directory or folder on which to act.

Table 18.4. ACTIONs Supported by <CFDIRECTORY>

ACTION	What It Does
create	Creates a new directory with the name specified in the attribute DIRECTORY
delete	Deletes the directory named in DIRECTORY
list	Lists the contents of specified DIRECTORY. This ACTION also accepts the optional attributes FILTER and SORT to determine file types to list, or sorting order, respectively.
rename	Renames DIRECTORY to the required attribute specified in NEWDIRECTORY ...