Setting up Filters

Another useful feature of JFTP is the ability to filter local files when performing various tasks. You can filter local files based on their name pattern, by their modification date and/or by their attributes. The filter will be honored by all local file tasks such as browsing, uploading, deleting, zipping and viewing properties.

Below are a few scenarios where filters can be very handy:

To set up a filter on the local files, do any one of the following:

When you do any of the above actions, a new dialog titled Filter Local Files will be displayed.

Filter by Name

Regular Expression
The name filter allows you to specify a filter based on the file names or name patterns. You can specify any valid regular expression as your filter criteria.

Below are a few commonly used regular expressions:

Case Sensitive
Checking this check box does a case sensitive pattern matching. This means that the regular expression .*\.html will match index.html but not INDEX.HTML.

Filter by Date

The date filter allows you to see only those files whose modification date is in a given date range.

Start
Start date for this filter.

End
End date for this filter.

If you want to set up a filter that allows only files modified after a specific date, just specify the Start date and leave the End date blank. Similarly, to allow files that were modified before a specific date, leave the Start date blank and specify the End date.

Filter by Attributes

Show Hidden Files and Folders
Check this box to allow hidden files and folders pass through this filter.

All newly opened sessions will have a default filter that hides hidden files and folders. If you want to see all hidden files and folders, select Local System -> Clear Filter menu item from the menu bar.

Apply
Clicking this button will validate your filter criteria and sets up a filter. At this point, all FTP and local file tasks that you perform will honor the filter.

Cancel
Clicking this button discards any changes you have made to the filter criteria and closes the Filter Local Files dialog.

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