Hi Matt, Thanks again for your detailed response. it was very informative. I have one more query now, I am able to fetch only previous days files, how can i get the files which are like 4 days or 5 days old. my expression is like this ${absolute.path}/Bell_LTECells_${now():toNumber():minus(86400000):format('ddMMyyyy')}.csv ( this works without any error) but if I want to get the files which are backdated to 3 to 4 days..l tried this.. ${absolute.path}/Bell_LTECells_${now():toNumber():minus(345600000):format('ddMMyyyy')}.csv and this dosent seem to work. ... View more

Thanks for your prompt reply, I am very new to Nifi and still have some queries can you please suggest me a processor to use when I want to read a file dynamically from a SFTP location on day to day basis and put it on to another SFTP location, based on date (today filename25052017.csv, tomorrow it would be filename26052017.csv) is there any alternative to use apart from the Expression language , which provide us the date ... View more

So , to get this working..I need to listSFTP?, if yes..how do i pass it as parameter to fetch the files ... View more

actual regex written in the configuration ... View more