FlexTk

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Overtime, disks on home computers and enterprise storage systems collect outdated files wasting storage space and making it difficult to find the required information. The FlexTk file management toolkit provides advanced storage utilization analysis capabilities allowing one to analyze one or more local disks or network shares, identify abnormal storage utilization patterns and automatically execute (FlexTk Ultimate Only) user-defined actions. The user is provided with the ability to browse files and directories sorted by the used storage space, identify disk utilization hotspots and export storage utilization reports into a number of standard formats such as HTML, Excel CSV and ASCII text.

In addition to the GUI application, FlexTk Ultimate provides a command line utility allowing one to use all the features of the FlexTk file management toolkit from an OS shell window. The FlexTk command line tool provides power users and system administrators with the ability to automate all the available file management operations and to integrate FlexTk features into batch files and shell scripts. The FlexTk command line tool is located in <ProductDir>/bin directory.

Command Line Syntax:

flextk -analyze -dir <Directory 1> [ ... <Directory X> <Options> ]

In addition, FlexTk allows one to execute user-defined storage utilization analysis commands using the FlexTk Execute command line tool, which supports all advanced capabilities available in the FlexTk GUI application.

Parameters:

-dir <Directory 1> [ ... <Directory X> ]

This parameter specifies the list of input directories to process. In order to ensure proper parsing of command line arguments, directories and file names containing space characters should be double quoted.

Options:

-exclude_dir <Exclude Directory 1> [ ... <Exclude Directory X> ]

This parameter specifies the list of directories that should be excluded from processing. In order to ensure proper parsing of command line arguments, directories containing space characters should be double quoted.

-save_html_report [ ReportFileName ]

This parameter instructs FlexTk to save a summary report and the list of all file categories to an HTML file. If no file name is specified, FlexTk will automatically generate a file name according to the following template: flexsize_[date]_[time].html

-save_csv_report [ ReportFileName ]

This parameter instructs FlexTk to save a summary report and the list of all file categories to an Excel CSV file. If no file name is specified, FlexTk will automatically generate a file name according to the following template: flexsize_[date]_[time].csv

-save_text_report [ ReportFileName ]

This parameter instructs FlexTk to save a summary report and the list of all file categories to a text report file. If no file name is specified, FlexTk will automatically generate a file name according to the following template: flexsize_[date]_[time].txt

-v

This parameter instructs FlexTk to show the product major version, minor version, revision and build date.

-help

This parameter instructs FlexTk to show the command line usage information.

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