Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide

Time for action – reading and writing matches files with flexibility

In this section, you will create a transformation very similar to the one you created in the previous section. In this case, however, you will interact with Spoon by telling it one-by-one which source files you want to send to the destination file:

1. Create a new transformation.
2. From the Input category of steps, drag to the work area a Get System Info step.
3. Double-click the step and add a new line to the grid. Under Name type filename. As Type select command line argument 1, as shown in the following screenshot:
   
4. Click on OK.
5. Add a Calculator step and create a hop from the previous step ...