# Accessing files inside a folder

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-files-inside-a-folder/165976>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 28, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-files-inside-a-folder/165976 "2019-01-28T10:00:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![vinu89](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vinu89/32/45939_2.png) [@vinu89](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vinu89)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-files-inside-a-folder/165976/1 "2019-01-28T10:00:49Z")

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Hi,

I have to access the files inside a folder . The folder structure is like this

MainFolder  
-\>folder1 -\> 1.txt  
-\>folder2 -\>2.txt  
-\>1.txt  
-\>2.txt

when i write the logstash parser like this

file {  
path =\> "/root/MainFolder/\*"  
start\_position =\> "beginning"  
sincedb\_path =\> "/dev/null"  
}

It is not working.Please help me out

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-files-inside-a-folder/165976/2 "2019-01-28T13:57:41Z")

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The [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-file.html#plugins-inputs-file-path) says to use \*\* for a recursive search.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-files-inside-a-folder/165976/3 "2019-02-25T13:57:44Z")

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