CuteFTP v4 User’s GuideFilter OptionsThe Edit/Filter window’s Options tab has several selections you may use to help with filtering files.APPLY FILTERS TO LOCAL DIRECTORY LISTING: This option applies filters to the local directory listing. APPLY FILTERS TO REMOTE DIRECTORY LISTING: This option applies filters to files displayed in the remote directory listing. APPLY FILTERS TO FOLDER NAME(S): Causes directories to be affected by the filters. LET CUTEFTP DO THE FILTERING (RECOMMENDED): CuteFTP applies the filters you have defined. LET THE REMOTE SERVER DO THE FILTERING: CuteFTP sends a command containing the filter to the server. You must define filters to be sent in the box below this option. APPLY FILTERS TO UPLOADS/DOWNLOADS: CuteFTP filters files during uploads or downloads. Useful when transferring directories. APPLY FILTERS TO SITE TO SITE TRANSFER: Filters are enabled when transferring files using Site to Site Transfers. CASE SENSITIVE FILTERING: Filters will be case sensitive, i.e. *.gif is a different filter than *.gif.DISPLAYING HIDDEN FILESYou can display hidden files on servers using a special filter command. When configuring your filter, select Let the remote server do the filtering. Type in -rtaF next to this field. Your listing command should now be LIST –rtaF, which allows display of hidden files.SELECTING FILE GROUPS USING FILTERSSelect Edit/Group Select from the menu bar. Enter a wildcard expression in the Filter Mask field. Select Mask Directories if you would like to filter directories as well as files. Select Remove Selection to clear currently selected items before selecting masked items. Press OK and the filter selection is performed on the currently selected pane. Some examples:Task: Select all GIF, but not HTML files. Operation: Use Group Select, specify *.GIF as filter mask, press OK.Task: Select all files, except HTML files.Operation: Use Group Select with * a s a filter mask, then useDeselect Group with *.HTML as a filter mask.Task: Select GIF and JPG files, but not HTML, TXT, DOC, WPG files.Operation: Use Group Select with *.GIF as a mask. Use Select Group again with *.gif mask and the Remove selection check-box cleared.TO INVERT THE SELECTED FILES (HIGHLIGHTS FILES NOT MATCHING THE FILTER): From the menu bar, click Edit/Invert Selection.TO DESELECT A GROUP OF FILES: From the menu bar, click Edit/Group Deselect.Wildcard MasksWildcard masks are patterns of special characters used to filter file names. When a wildcard mask is matched against a file name, the two patterns are compared, letter-by-letter, from left to right until a mismatch occurs. If all the characters in both patterns compare positively, t he file name matches the Wildcard Mask.A Wildcard Mask can contain the following characters:? Will match any single character (i.e. ? will match a,b,c,1,2,etc...)* Will match any sequence of characters (including no characters at all), terminated by the next character in the mask. (i.e. *a will match cutea, wwwa, zzza, a etc.).[ ] Will match any character in the character set enclosed in the brackets. This can also be a range of characters (i.e. [A-Z] ). If the opening bracket is followed by !, matches any character NOT in the set. (i.e. [abc] will match a, b o r c only.[!abc] will match any character except a, b o r c )12
