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1. Page 7 E Main input Modified Ko a O Mhe FilterAny was created to help on tedious tasks when working with text files It is only necessary to execute a sequence of filters to generate the expected result In some cases that is trivial in other cases it can be compared to a simple puzzle o RA WNE Line 7 Column 28 C0 0 08 gt Picture 8 Control of the temporary memory These buttons allow the transfer of the text to a temporary memory visualize which texts area that are stored on the memory and remove the texts that are no longer useful on the memory To add a text to the memory the bottom 42 can be used The text is removed from the Editing Area and is transferred to the temporary memory To visualize the content on the Editing Area the following buttons can be used and Ol To remove the content from the temporary memory the following button can be used In between the buttons there is an indication of which content from the last temporary memory that was moved to the Editing Area In the example of the picture 8 the number 1 3 indicate that last content that was moved to the Editing Area was the number 1 and that exist 3 contents stored on the memory All the contents stored on the memory will continue to exist after FilterAny is closed The next time FilterAny is executed all the contents on the memory will be available automatically All Editing Areas allow a series of actions using the2. Output txt SEL MIELI f2 nll tell Page 23 5 Registration The registration of FilterAny is free of charge Download the FilterAny from internet site Execute FilterAny exe or run the java application by running Java jar Filter Any jar Once the main interface appears click on Register button on the top right of the window Provide at least your name and email address Accept the terms A sequence of characters in a form of a square will be generated like Hatt Ht aH Hat SH EH HE WZZZWURTTTEt MTGONTCONZUO HOV1bUmVnaXNO comF O0aW9uIFR1 c3RdW11bIC0g ICOgICOgxVty ZWdpc3RyYXRp b25AaG90bWEp bC5 jb21dW11b MTIM30DUXNjA5 MZAONLO HH FE TE AE TE E FE FE FE FE EEE SH Select this text using the mouse and copy the text using Ctrl C keys Paste the content into an email and send it to filterany carlosbcruz com A file named FilterAny reg will be sent as a response Place this file in the same directory of the FilterAny exe or in a directory in the PATH or even set an environment variable named FILTERANY and associate it with the directory that holds the FilterAny reg This will enable all features Page 24
3. Quarta feira 10 Maio de 2006 Hour 17 58 54 0321 BRT Rashad Forbes 786 5290 6146 Date Segunda feira 20 Outubro de 2014 Hour 13 36 28 Ruby Graves 108 4526 5748 Date Ter a feira 12 Setembro de 2006 Hour 18 34 05 032 Ahmed Bruce 498 9712 7420 Date Segunda feira 10 Agosto de 2009 Hour 11 27 44 034 Oprah Lioyd 904 7005 3390 Date Sexta feira 24 Fevereiro de 2012 Hour 321 Picture 17 File comparison window Page 14 3 File sharing through network It is possible to share the content of the editing areas through the network To share file it is necessary to use the button with an icon like a globe O It is available on the Filter Any toolbar It opens a window like the one on the picture 18 In this window there are three buttons on the top left corner of the window Each button corresponds to one editing area Main Auxiliar and Output If any one of these buttons is pressed then an item on the Items available list is added This item store the current content of the editing area correspondent to the button pressed This item is not yet available on the network because the item is disabled To make it available it is necessary to click on the check box besides the work Disabled and enter a comment It is also possible to share binary and any other type of file with any size To do that it is necessary to use the button named File This button creates on item on the
4. Rose Conner 120 4080 9965 Date Sexta feira 21 Outubro de 2011 Hour 09 28 58 0321 Rahim Owens 862 3809 4845 Date Quinta feira 16 Abril de 2015 Hour 01 10 06 0321 BI Keelie Richard 887 3030 5865 Date Sexta feira 8 Outubro de 2010 Hour 22 08 36 0321 Chase Rodriguez 660 1187 2348 Date Sexta feira 28 Novembro de 2008 Hour 01 23 46 Vivian Gould 326 0775 4350 Date S bado 4 Abril de 2009 Hour 08 45 19 0321 BRT Ronan Duncan 563 1678 2940 Date Ter a feira 2 Setembro de 2014 Hour 22 22 30 1 Yoshi Cherry 097 6737 2136 Date Domingo 3 Fevereiro de 2008 Hour 06 43 40 0321 Lance Summers 370 8214 0756 Date S bado 21 Julho de 2007 Hour 23 05 40 0321 Gay Cole 126 3738 9854 Date Sexta feira 4 Agosto de 2006 Hour 09 52 31 0321 BRT Alfonso Parrish 075 1337 4972 Date Sexta feira 20 Abril de 2012 Hour 23 35 50 0321 B Abra Bennett 753 4049 7077 Date S bado 28 Fevereiro de 2015 Hour 15 07 37 0321 Keegan Gillespie 273 7818 6234 Date Sexta feira 4 Julho de 2008 Hour 17 33 29 0321 Jennifer Blankenship 929 4059 9659 Date Quinta feira 25 Setembro de 2008 Hour 01 David Sims 253 2178 5850 Date Ter a feira 4 Setembro de 2012 Hour 08 58 15 0321 B Britanni Hines 953 5682 1989 Date Segunda feira 3 Setembro de 2007 Hour 15 07 32 0 Garrett Stein 974 2007 1239 Date Segunda feira 20 Julho de 2009 Hour 13 53 43 0321 Iris Barnett 085 4598 1714 Date
5. Items available that is specific to handle files First it is necessary to click on Open button to select the file to be shared After that it is possible to enable the item and enter a comment The equipment being used can have many addresses All these addresses both IPv4 and IPv6 are listed on the field Addresses Select the best address format for your connection All the addresses generated by the server will be based on this selection The server is automatically started using port number 80 This number can be changed by disabling the server using the item Server active then providing the new port number and finally enabling back the server through the item Server active While the server is still enabled it is possible to make the server show a message saying that the server is about to be disabled This allows the users connected to the server be aware that the server will no longer be available soon On the bottom left side of the window there is a table that shows the items being download and accessed by the user in real time This table shows the Address of the item being downloaded and how many times it was accessed It is possible to restart the counters by clicking on the Reset counter button Each time the server transfers any information then the light besides the message Server status turns red The items on the Items available list can be enabled or disabled anytime The items
6. Javascript JSP Lisp Lua Makefile MXML Perl PHP Properties files Phyton Ruby SAS Scala SQL TCL Unix Shell Windows Batch and XML Page 5 4 Copy Once some part of the text is selected this button transfer this content to the clipboard and can be pasted on any other program or area of FilterAny 5 Print Print the content in colors l lt DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC W3C DTD HTML 4 01 Transitional EN gt 3 lt html gt lt head gt lt meta http equiv REFRESH content 5 gt lt link rel stylesheet href Filteriny css type text css gt lt title gt Filteriny Internal HTTP Server lt title gt lt script type text javascript gt 5 4 T X Line 10 Column 0 Format C Show tabulation White background Text forsake Cr o Picture 6 Full screeen editor The ESC key closes the full screen editor Any changes done on the full screen editor is automatically moved to the respective internal editor If any text were selected then this selection is also preserved into the internal editor Any change on the Editing Areas can be undone or redone using the arrow on the top right of any Editing Area The blue icon with the letter i makes a window appear with information about the content of the Editing Area The content of this window is like the picture Page 6 General information Symbols Characterisc Entire text Selected text Symbol
7. among other characteristics The first step a simple text file is created like the sample file C Script Script txt Srch Sempty SVariavel_1 t1 C Temp f1 TXT c1 Yes Filemode RemD Variavel 1 Ignorar cl Yes c2 Yes TDir C Temp2 The next step is to execute the FilerAny passing the name of the script file FAConsole script C Script Script txt The result of the execution is presented as follows O comando Srch executou com sucesso Modo arquivo ativado Sucesso C Temp2 directory_1 directory_1_1 file_1_1_A txt Sucesso C Temp2 directory_1 directory_1_1 file_1_1_B txt Sucesso C Temp2 directory_1 directory_1_1 file_1_1_C txt Sucesso C Temp2 directory_1 directory_1_2 file_1_2_A txt Sucesso C NVTemp2idirectory lidirectory 1 2Nfile 12 B txt Sucesso C Temp2 directory_1 file_1l_A txt Sucesso C Temp2 directory_1 file_1_B txt Sucesso C Temp2 file_A txt Sucesso C Temp2 file_B txt O comando RemD executou com sucesso A execu o do arquivos de script foi finalizada 4 3 1 OverWrite The command OverWrite can be inserted into the script file to indicate that if the files being created already exist then they will be overwritten 4 3 2 DoNotOverWrite The standard behavior of Filter Any is to do not overwrite the target files if they exist The command DoNotOverWrite can be used in case the command OverWrite had been used and it is desired to return back to the normal standard Filter Any be
8. ida tos RP E 23 4 3 14 UU di 23 4 3 15 Positioning parameters ida da doce 23 A Dc Sauce Gaui bes 23 A 3 17 Special characters trad 23 A NO 24 1 Introduction The FilterAny was created to help on tedious tasks when working with text files It is only necessary to execute a sequence of filters to generate the expected result In some cases that is trivial in other cases it can be compared to a simple puzzle Here are some tasks examples that some people probably had to do manually e When copying a content from one tool to another one and having that adjusting the position of the text manually e When receiving one list with any information and having to verify one by one if there are repeated information or not e When copying something from Internet and that text came with strange text characters in many places and it is necessary to remove one by one When having that move a text into a spreadsheet and having to position each information in correct cell one by one This list of tasks is a small example of where FilterAny can be used It is possible to use some imagination and is clear to see many other situations where FilterAny can be used The concept of the tool is very simple It is just necessary to copy and paste any text into the Input Area then a filter can be applied generating a filtered text into the Output Area If it is necessary to apply one another filter then the content can be brought back to the Input
9. no longer needed can also be removed using the Delete button Page 15 Server controls Add items buttons C Shutting down message Main Auziliar File Address http licpc lt Server status v Server active Address Requests _ Items available Text number 1 Y Enabled Comment List of names 4 Header Delete Text number 2 C Enabled Comment List of places 7 Header Delete Text number 3 Y Enabled Comment List of addresses 7 Header Delete ile number 1 7 Enabled File C Z_homepage awk exe Open Comment AWK executable Text number 4 C Enabled Comment 7 Header Delete Text number 5 Reset counter Picture 18 Network server Any person that is accessible through the network can open a browser and type the network address A page similar to the one shown on picture 19 will appear When clicking on any of the links from Link column will make the browser open another window with the content desired or an indication for downloading and saving a file on a local file system ta Automatic refresh at each 6 seconds List of names list atada 5 it mMaracters Picture 19 Page opened through the network using a browser 4 Command line Almost all filters that exist on the graphical interface can also be executed through command lin
10. simple text was added to exemplify a line that is not going to be considered Page 11 Temp directory_1i directory_1_1 fi le_i_i_A txt Temp directory_1 directory_1_1 file_i_1_8 txt Temp directory_1 directory_1_1 file_1_1_C txt Temp directory_1 directory_1_2 file_1_2_A txt Temp directory_1 directory_1_2 file_i_2_8 txt is line is not going to be considered Temp directory_1 file_1_A txt Temp directory_1 file_1_B txt Temp FILESA txt Temp FILESB txt Temp fi1e_A txt Temp fi1e_B txt X Line 6 Column 40 00 00 Picture 12 List of files to be used on multiple files mode On picture 13 it is possible to see the file names converted into a table Only the lines with type L and status W are going to be considered After that it is possible to select a filter an indicate a target directory 11 files O URL s 1 texts 11 valid items and 0 not verified o La O Row Location C Temp directory_ 1 directory_1_ file_1_1_A tet C Tempi directory_ 1 directory_1_ file_1_1_B txt CNTempldirectory directory 1 1Wile 11 Ctx CNTempldirectory 1idirectory 1 Mile 12 Att CTempldirectory directory 1 Mile 12 Btxt This line is not going to be considered CNTempldirectory 1Wile 1 Atxt CN empldirectory 1Wile 1 Btxt C Temp FILESA txt C Temp FILESB txt CiTemplile Bt CO OD MA ho 11 20170060 Picture 13 List of f
11. to Portuguese time format Convert each line from Portuguese to English time format Changes specific letters by numbers and the text continues to be readable Swap letters positions and the text continues to be readable Simply convert each character to Morse code Download text such as page sources Page 18 Alr Alert if the content has a specific text Each filter has a code with approximated six letters To show instructions of how to execute a filter one can type Help followed by the filter s code As an example the command below shows the instructions of how to execute the filter Search for files to apply filters on them Help Srch Search for files to apply filters on many files at the same time Usage Srch input file or Svariable output file or variable t1 File or directory f1 Extensions Optional cl Yes or No Use t1 to indicate the file to be include or the directory that holds the files to be include in the list Use f1 to indicate the file extension to be included The extensions should be separated by comma like txt xml ini If it is not provided then any file is included Use cl to indicate if it is necessary to search on sub directories or not The FilterAny interface has a command line support window that can be opened using the button L It is only necessary to copy the command into a text file and adapt the input and output files This file can be
12. used as a script file to execute many commands automatically This is going to be described below Execute a filter and the corresponding command line command will appear here Remove characters from beginning RemCB input txt ovariable output txt ovariable f1 45 cl yes Leave only numbers Numb input txt ovariable output txt variable cl yes c2 no Sort by length in ascendant order SrtL input txt ovariable output txt ovariable cl yes Picture 20 Command line generator window As an example let s suppose a situations where it is necessary to remove the duplicated lines from all the files on directory C Temp and all sub directories First it is necessary to retrieve the list of files The result can be stored on a temporary file or into a memory variable Initially the result is going to be stored into the memory variable There is no need to provide an input file to the search filter therefore a predefined variable with empty content empty Srch Sempty SVariable_1 t1 C Temp f1 TXT c1 Yes Command Srch executed successfully In this moment the variable created with name Variable 1 has a content similar to the text Page 19 below Temp directory_1 directory_1_1 file_1_1_A txt Temp directory_1 directory_1_1 file_1_1_B txt Temp directory_1 directory_1_1 file_1_1_C txt Temp directory_1 directory_1_2 file_1_2_A txt Temp directory_1 directory_1_2 file_1_2_B txt Temp direc
13. 010 13 13 14 0321 BRT 17 Troy Mueller 762 1484 7833 Sexta feira 24 Dezembro de 2010 09 59 45 0321 BR 18 Lesley Ryan 525 0508 0745 Segunda feira 16 Abril de 2012 22 27 30 0321 BRT 19 Ralph Parrish 348 7085 3235 S bado 19 Abril de 2008 07 58 01 0321 BRT 20 Erica Wood 292 0506 7591 Quinta feira 24 Abril de 2008 08 37 43 0321 BRT 21 Merrill Robles 423 1565 9697 Ter a feira 11 Outubro de 2011 13 46 57 0321 BRT 22 Marny Barlow 199 8952 7270 Quarta feira 28 Setembro de 2011 18 56 43 0321 B 23 Ferris Finley 603 8231 0863 Quinta feira 2 Agosto de 2007 08 38 50 0321 BRT 24 Maya Knox 972 3921 3626 Quarta feira 12 Dezembro de 2012 09 32 05 0321 BR 25 Oleg Hayden 417 8921 2069 S bado 11 Outubro de 2008 12 29 00 0321 BRT 26 Savannah Parker 427 7362 7026 Sexta feira 25 Outubro de 2013 16 47 54 0321 27 Zephania Beasley 437 8054 6396 Domingo 28 Novembro de 2010 18 23 07 0321 28 Cathleen Moran 989 5197 1201 S bado 14 Janeiro de 2012 23 14 23 0321 BRST 29 Darius Chan 035 6632 6351 Quarta feira 27 Dezembro de 2006 00 36 36 0321 BR 30 Karina Mcmillan 763 9661 4237 Segunda feira 1 Janeiro de 2007 01 16 18 0321 E 31 Reese Sampson 645 1818 3623 Ter a feira 15 Mar o de 2011 00 44 18 0321 BR 32 Kylynn Tate 361 8936 4690 Quinta feira 23 Julho de 2009 00 46 27 0321 BRT 33 Asher Kemp 108 4359 6972 Segunda feira 19 Junho de 2006 01 04 07 0321 BRT 34 Jaim
14. Area with a simple click on a button This process is repeated until the expected result is reached The FilterAny interface is very simple fe Saud Compare pen uecas bpp 600 5 re 208 Be Z ms met olg ns L i 4 Bl x imc coma OOOO gt 00000 Tum Fe a K Une Cm 35 00706 Reprod te Cesos Temanca Dee Car Picture 1 FilterAny Main Window Picture 1 shows to the FilterAny main window with its 5 main areas Areas and 2 are the Input Areas the area 1 is the Main Input and the area 2 is the Auxiliary Input The area 3 allows the selection of the filter to be applied on the text that is on the Input Areas Area 4 allows some configurations for the selected filter Area 5 is the Output Area After the selected filter is applied on the content of the Input Areas the result is generated on the Ouput Area Page 1 i 4 Canam Gur R J If the result Is the expecte one Picture 2 Sequence of execution of FilterAny The sequence of use of the FilterAny follows the steps indicated in picture 2 First it is necessary to provide any content in the Input Areas After that the desired filter is selected on Area 3 Configure the filter on area 4 Finally execute the filter and the result is generated on the Output Area If it is still necessary to apply the filter then it is possible to exchange the content between the Input and Output Area and the process is repeated until the desired result i
15. Entire text Selected text Length 146845 92648 Period 3265 1977 Words 12642 7969 Comma 409 Total lines 5195 3291 Colon 32 16 Empty lines 1112 688 Semicolon 1599 Tabulations 14272 9827 Exclamation point 73 Spaces 8079 5089 Question mark Space sequences 76 44 Apostrophe Line type UNIX UNIX Single quotation Double quotation Open brackets Repeated words Close brackets Open square brackets Repeated words with more then 5 characters Close square brackets Open curly brace 1 42 Close curly brace Position Word Repetitions por carlosbcruz 203 _ Underline return 158 8 Ampersand import 139 Tilde filteranyconfigur 136 QA event 133 Plus Dash Equals lt Is less than gt Is greater than Back slash Forward slash Hash Dollar Percent A Caret Asterisk Picture 7 Information about the text on any Editing Area 2 1 6 Line and column where the cursor is When the cursor is moved using either the mouse or the keyboard the indication of the cursor location is updated on the lower left side of the Editing Area It will be constantly updated to show the current line number and column where the cursor is 2 1 7 Buttons to control the temporary memory On the bottom right side of the Editing Areas there is a set of buttons as shown on the picture
16. FilterAny User Manual Version 1 0 Aug 11th 2015 Table of Contents Me TMG AAC no RR RAE Pe res oa 1 2Graphi a Mod OEI te OS ata 3 E A A tamedbeavatoasmacgantegse 3 2 LI Windows E od us 4 22 O RES 4 2 3 A Asa 5 21 4 Text b ing Edi iii 5 2 1 5 Full screen text editor undo redo and text information buttoDS ccccccconocccnnnnnnccnnnnnns 5 2 1 6 Line and column where the cursor 15 apago aa rd 7 2 1 7 Buttons to control the temporary MeMOTY occconocononocononeccnonenonnnnccnonenononcnononcncnnnnnnnnnnnnnncnnos 7 2D TS 9 2 2 1 Eilters description do paa 9 22 TANS TAF ANIM LOTS e O PEDE RENDA ae ses ENADE ARA a esta aaa CREDO ease heen 10 223 Filter execution AAA A A 10 2 2 4 Excecution on multiple BS sci sch A ema meen 10 2 3 OME SUT 10 OM PARES TR ici 13 2A MALS COMI ALC A el o a nae 14 SALES HATS CHOU Neon aaa cs te ces actin geese tee ee os cade eee aan 15 4 Command nes sanita sisters risos So ads lts 16 AA Interactive Odia ae 17 42 Simple command A oras ea 21 4 CTT Las ur pecas ud is DOR Se CR a a Dl acid 21 ADL VOR Wee 21 A 32 IIOIN GUO VEE WE estadia atole ea soio e ea 21 4 B22 A a 22 ELSA DONA aC INC ATE EEA T A ET 22 43S PU LOGE pp nen RARE ae cates RARE E RR RPA 22 AO LEMA a 22 aO DIO N P ge eee RPC DEP Ee PT EE E E Ore OPN TCR Pe PSEA Pre ORT ONE EDER ree 22 AO UND se e a dma evade Soak 22 Wh DDS A sew cas eed toa Doo E go eam AU ia eat aa 22 ADL NA 22 EEC O leed bib 23 A A Rr a 23 ASS TICES
17. Pop up Menu that can be opened using the mouse right button This menu can switch the content between the Editing Areas search and replace words cut copy and paste from e to the operational system s clipboard compare the content between Editing Areas to visualize the similarities and differences copy the column number where the cursor is into a position parameter of a filter this process will be covered later and finally switch the type of command line The Pop up Menu can be seen on picture 9 Page 8 Modified K oa eA he FilterAny was created to help on edious_tasks when working with text iles EE te a seque Switch Main with Output pe Eanes Switch Main with Auxiliar compare Find Replace on Main Go to Line eX Cut from Main D Copy from Main Paste into Main sz Compare Main with Output S Compare Main with Auxiliar X Line 7 Column 28 00 00 Picture 9 Pop up menu from the Editing Areas NOU PWN BP 2 2 Filters The filters area is where all the actions that can be applied on the Editing Areas can be found The filters are organized in categories and it s behavior can be identified by it s icon mw The filter can be executed in graphical mode and also on command line This type of filter can also be applied when the graphical mode is configured to work on multiples files the multiple files mode will be covered later T This filter can only b
18. all FAConsole Command Required parameters lt Optional parameters gt to execute one single command Call FAConsole script Script file name to execute a sequence of commands stored on a text file After that it is possible to provide commands To list the available filter one should write List and press enter A full list of available filter will be presented List Internal commands Set definition content Set a definition to be reused on file directory names and text parameters Overwrite Overwrite output files DoNotOverwrite Skip the operation if output file exists Append Output files will be appended if they exist DoNotAppend Output files will no longer be appended if they exist SYS Arguments Execute a command on a separated process All commands accept lt optional positioning parameters gt that is s number Character to start the filter e number Character to end the filter ls number Line to start the filter le number Line to end the filter Lines have precedence over characters Commands ToUp Convert all or part of the main input content to upper case ToLo Convert all or part of the main input content to lower case FsUp This filter capitalize only the first letter of words from the main input ToDs Change the new lines from UNIX to DOS format ToUx Change the new lines to UNIX type ToTa Convert a certain number of consecutive spaces into a ta
19. and to tell FilterAny to try to identify the encoding automatically before reading any file 4 3 14 OutputEncoding This command is very similar to the InputEncoding but it applies to the files generated by FilterAny 4 3 15 Positioning parameters It is possible to indicate which part of the input file should be filtered The standard behavior is that the entire text is filtered To restrict the content to be filtered it is possible based on the characters position using the parameters s and e for example ToUp Input txt Output txt s 20 e 80 In this example only the characters that are between position 20 and 80 are going to be converted to upper case The remaining characters will remain unchanged To indicate the To indicate the start and end based on line numbers it is possible to use the parameters ls and le for example ToUp Input txt Output txt ls 5 le 10 In this command only the characters that are between lines 5 and 10 are going to be converted to upper case 4 3 16 Comments Any line that starts with H is considered a comment and does not influence the execution of a Script 4 3 17 Special characters It is possible to use the tabulation and new line characters on the filters parameters The tabulation can be used by entering t and the new line can be entered using nl In the example below each tabulation in the input file is replaced by a new line and two tabulations Repl Input EXE
20. bulation ToSp Convert tabulation into a specific number of consecutive spaces RemCB Remove a certain number of characters from the beginning of each line RemCE Remove a certain number of characters from the end of each line RemPB Remove a certain number of characters before a specific position in the line RemPA Remove a certain number of characters after a specific position in the line RemPC Remove all characters between two specific positions in the line RBet Remove only the characters that are between the provided parameters ROut Remove all characters except the characters that are between the provided parameters RemSB Remove all spaces from the beginning of the lines RemSE Remove all spaces from the end of the lines Trim Remove all spaces from the extremities of the line RemBP Remove a certain number of characters there are before a specific parameter RemAP Remove a certain number of characters there are after a specific parameter Numb Change all characters by spaces except digits ColS Replace any consecutive number of spaces by the Text parameter Page 17 Vald Copy ParB Park ParP RPBP RPAP Enum RemD EliD EliN RemE RemC RemN RLen Repl RegE RepC SrtA SrtD SrtAP SrtDP SrtL Shuf CombL MLnRS and 6 and Swap RmMain RmNotM Comb Inte Comb MRepl RmMult RWMult Input Ins InPar replacing RandR Del App MD5 DupW Break Srch Math Rand Tree File RDi
21. ctory structure of the source directory These files can be used to execute another filter and this process can be repeated as many times as necessary RemD Variable 1 Ignore cl Yes c2 Yes TDir C Temp2 Success C Temp2 directory_1 directory_1_1 file_1_1_A txt Success C Temp2 directory_1 directory_1_1 file_1_1_B txt Success C Temp2 directory_1 directory_1_1 file_1_1_C txt Success C Temp2 directory_1 directory_1_2 file_1_2_A txt Success C Temp2 directory_1 directory_1_2 file_1_2_B txt Success C Temp2 directory_1 file_1l_A txt Success C Temp2 directory_1 file_1_B txt Success C Temp2 file_A txt Success C Temp2 file_B txt Command RemD executed successfully Page 20 4 2 Simple command To execute a simple command it is necessary to execute the FAConsole exe followed by the filter selected with it s specific parameter This mode is more restrictive because there is no way to configure the FilterAny before executing the filter like indicate the overwrite mode activate the file mode between others Here is a filter execution through a simple command line FAConsole ToUp C Temp file_A txt C Temp2 file A txt Command ToUp executed successfully 4 3 Script A sequence of commands can be stored in a script file that is a simple text file created by any simple text editor This should be the preferred way of using FilterAny on command lines because the commands can be easily modified reused stored
22. directories then the parameter Sub directories parameter should be selected Once the Search files filter is executed a task is created to generate the list of files This is indicated by an alert like the on on picture 10 Page 10 Picture 10 Task created The task indication is presented on a window called Task manager In this windows it is possible to cancel a task when the button is in red and with text Cancel Task When the task has finished it is possible to transfer the content generated to the Output Area The picture 11 shows the task Search files finished with a total of 10 files found in 2 seconds Number Filter E Message Es Duration 1 Search files 10 files 00h 00m 02sec Completed Picture 11 Task finished The result of this search is a list of file names on the Output Area This set of names should be transferred to the Main Area and the file mode can be activated through the button a that is located on the toolbar The Main and Output Area will be transformed into tables where each line is verified if they correspond to valid files All lines that area flagged with icon U to the type and Y to the status will be considered All lines that do not correspond to valid files are flagged with Ito the type and to the status On picture 12 it is possible to see the list of files generated by the filter Search files and an additional line with a
23. e This mode is useful to frequent tasks It is possible to create a text file having the instructions to execute a sequence of filters and they will be executed automatically This execution mode is generally used by computer professional therefore if it is not your case then you can ignore this section Page 16 The command line mode is available through the executable FAConsole exe it has to be executed on a DOS window or on a Linux terminal This executable allows the execution of a single filter the execution of a script stored on a simple text file that specifies the sequence of filters to be executed or work on interactive mode 4 1 Interactive mode The interactive mode is a good start to learn how to work with command line To enter this mode it is necessary to execute the FAConsole exe without any parameter When this file is executed this program will show an initial text according to the text below FilterAny v1 0 FilterAny Console Interface Type List for the list of available filters command Type Help lt Command gt to receive the instructions for a specific command Type Encodings to list the available encodings Type InputEncoding lt Encoding gt to define the encoding of input files Type Detect to automatically detect input file encoding not guaranteed Type OutputEncoding lt Encoding gt to define the encoding of output files Type Quit or Exit to close FilterAny Console C
24. e Robles 758 3023 6093 Domingo 3 Maio de 2009 02 24 50 0321 BRT 35 Plato Pennington 420 9052 5388 Quarta feira 26 Junho de 2013 01 36 34 0321 B 36 Indira Vincent 198 6831 4572 Quinta feira 30 Abril de 2015 13 48 37 0321 BRT A gt 4 il L D athleen Moran 989 51 Darius Chan 035 6632 6351 Date Quarta feira 27 Dezembro de 2006 Hour 00 36 36 03 Karina Mcmillan 763 9661 4237 Date Segunda feira 1 Janeiro de 2007 Hour 01 16 18 0 Reese Sampson 645 1818 3623 Date Ter a feira 15 Mar o de 2011 Hour 00 44 18 032 Kylynn Tate 361 8936 4690 Date Quinta feira 23 Julho de 2009 Hour 00 46 27 0321 BR Asher Kemp 108 4359 6972 Date Segunda feira 19 Junho de 2006 Hour 01 04 07 0321 Jaime Robles 758 3023 6093 Date Domingo 3 Maio de 2009 Hour 02 24 50 0321 BRT Plato Pennington 420 9052 5388 Date Quarta feira 26 Junho de 2013 Hour 01 36 34 03 Indira Vincent 198 6831 4572 Date Quinta feira 30 Abril de 2015 Hour 13 48 37 0321 BF Gregory Winters 770 7283 3419 Date Ter a feira 14 Junho de 2011 Hour 20 53 01 Beatrice Anderson 606 4699 6534 Date Quarta feira 5 Fevereiro de 2014 Hour 22 59 Uriel Duncan 804 3101 7274 Date Domingo 22 Novembro de 2015 Hour 00 04 34 0321 Xantha Harrison 510 0969 5356 Date Ter a feira 21 Abril de 2009 Hour 20 08 14 0321 Levi Hughes 845 5961 6122 Date S bado 27 Junho de 2009 Hour 07 08 32 0321 BRT
25. e executed in graphical mode This type of filter do not apply when the graphical mode is configured to multiple file mode YB This filter can only be executed when the graphical mode is configured to multiple file mode and can be applied to binary files also The filter can be executed on command line E This filter can be executed in graphical mode and also on command line This type of filter do not apply when the graphical mode is configured to multiple file mode Hs This filter uses the content of both Main and Auxiliar Areas to generate the Output Area 2 2 1 Filters description A full filter description of how a filter works can be visualized by selecting the desired filter clicking the button _ Gre and reading the text that appears on the Help Area On the toolbar there is the button EX that activates the automatic help When it is turned on there will be a green sign over the question mark and the help text will be presented by selecting any filter without the Page 9 need to press the Help button An example of how the filter works can be seen by selecting the filter and pressing the button B Example The example texts will appear on the Main Area Output and depending on the filter the example text will also appear on the Auxiliar Area 2 2 2 Filter parameters Each time a filter is selected the Control area will show the parameters according to the selected filter Each parameter ca
26. e where are duplicated consecutive words Restrict the length by moving the exceeding text to another line Search for files to apply filters on them Execute a series of calculation One calculation per line Generates great variety of random data Generates a directory tree from file system Generates a file list from file system Deletes a specific directory or an entire directory tree Generates a file list in the format to the Knapsack problem Calculate a solution to Knapsack problem with many sacks Generate the code for a Java Bean based on provided fields Formats a JSP file by indenting all tokens Use a mask to split a string representing a computer message into individual fields Use a mask to combine the individual fields to create the string representing a computer message XML ChUD AWK1 AWK2 AWK3 Start Stop Calc AMto24 24toAM TxNum TxErr Morse DownB Indent the tags of a XML file Convert the character of a specific column to upper or lower case Execute the AWK Script 1 on the input text and show the result Execute the AWK Script 2 on the input text and show the result Execute the AWK Script 3 on the input text and show the result Add an entry on the time list indicating the start of a task Add an entry on the time list indicating the stop of a task Calculate the time spend on a particular task Convert each line from English
27. gh lines This shows blocks of lines that are identical between the two texts The comparison window has a similar format as compared with the picture 17 Zahir Larson 396 4184 3396 Ter a feira 5 Maio de 2015 07 57 01 0321 BRT Laura Jacobs 964 9345 9802 Sexta feira 30 Abril de 2010 03 33 48 0321 BRT Paki Winters 923 1877 3209 Quinta feira 15 Julho de 2010 23 16 25 0321 BRT Reagan Luna 928 5543 1019 Segunda feira 20 Janeiro de 2014 19 26 32 0321 BI Giacomo Brewer 632 2747 1017 Domingo 30 Maio de 2010 03 37 41 0321 BRT Ainsley Humphrey 037 3839 2878 Quinta feira 3 Julho de 2014 22 40 46 0321 BR Chandler Ewing 267 8231 8171 Sexta feira 26 Janeiro de 2007 22 38 42 0321 BR Flavia Rasmussen 813 4490 0143 S bado 16 Fevereiro de 2008 05 29 42 0321 E 9 Hunter Kline 930 3949 4810 Segunda feira 25 Julho de 2011 22 16 42 0321 BRT 10 Alexis Brewer 898 1427 8823 Segunda feira 2 Abril de 2012 19 38 37 0321 BRT 11 Bradley Mcbride 598 1234 8991 S bado 15 Julho de 2006 02 34 42 0321 BRT 12 Maris Dickson 160 6954 5101 Sexta feira 29 Dezembro de 2006 18 27 50 0321 BF 13 Allen Rice 323 9697 1211 Domingo 3 Janeiro de 2010 03 57 23 0321 BRST 14 Shoshana Best 102 5578 8542 Quinta feira 12 Agosto de 2010 04 20 18 0321 a 15 Xander Ewing 103 9671 4247 Quarta feira 29 Outubro de 2014 05 59 18 0321 BI 16 Marcia Russell 823 3866 5198 Quinta feira 1 Abril de 2
28. haracters after a position The order are defined by the line length The sorter first and longest are the last Change the sequence of the lines using a random order Append all lines into a single line If the Step is 2 then preserve line number 1 remove 2 and 3 preserve 4 remove 5 so forth Swap the characters before the parameter with the character after the parameter Remove the lines that exist on both Main and Auxiliar Input Remove the lines that do not exist on both Main and Auxiliar Input Append each line from Auxiliar Input to each line of Main Input Intercalate the lines of Main Input with the Auxiliar Input on a regular step Insert the text from Auxiliar Input into the Main Input according to the step Use the list of from to on the Auxiliar and apply on the Main Input Remove the lines that has any of the parameters specified on the Auxiliar Input Remove the lines that do not have any of the parameters specified on the Auxiliar Insert the text of Auxiliar Input into a specific line and column of the Main Input lt html gt Insert the text of Auxiliar input between each two lt br gt specified parameters the previous content lt html gt Not only replace the content on the files but also on the file name Removes the specified files from the file system Appends all the specified files into a single file Calculate the MD5 code of all files Indicat
29. havior for security purpose Page 21 4 3 3 Append This command indicates that if the target file exist then the text generated will be appended to the previous content 4 3 4 DoNotAppend This command indicates that if the target file exist then the behavior will depend if the mode OverWrite or DoNotOverWrite is activated If the OverWrite is activated then the new content will be written over the previous content that is going to be lost If the mode DoNotOverWrite is activated then an error message will appear avoiding the lost of the previous content 4 3 5 FileMode The FileMode is used to indicate that the input text to the filters should be interpreted as a list of file names The filter will be executed on each of these files one by one 4 3 6 TextMode The TextMode allows the return to the default mode of Filter Any where the input texts are treated as common texts The filter is executed on this text and not interpretation of it s content is done 4 3 7 DOS This command makes the end of line indications follow the DOS Windows format 4 3 8 Unix This command makes the end of line indications follow the Unix Linux format 4 3 9 SYS This command allows the execution of any program or executable from a Script of FilterAny The executable called by this command are free to perform any task This brings a lot of flexibility to the Script execution To call any executable o
30. iles converted to a table after the multiple files mode is turned on When the filter is executed a confirmation window will appear according to picture 14 where the files on white background are the source files and the ones on yellow background are the target files In case the target directory is the same of the source directory than an indication that the files are going to be overwritten will appear Page 12 Y Review the actions that will be executed and hit Confirm or Cancel button Tempidirectory_1idirectory_1_1ifile_1_1_A txt Temp directory_1 directory_1_1 file_1_1_B txt Temp directory_1 directory_1_1 file_1_1_C txt Temp directory_1 directory_1_2 file_1_2 Atxt Temp directory_1 directory_1_2 file 1 2 B txt Picture 14 Confirmation window for the filter execution on multiple files 2 3 Configuration The graphical interface allow some configuration through the menu Option and then Configuration A window according to the picture 15 will be presented Look and feel Behavior Look and feel Window structure Select the look and feel Use internal windows Use frames Use splitters Meon Man fimo is a tort that io mIs Tioid Sample M a how the 100 e e e ona rore tuk Tree line style Inia trago shaw me md aay M retiocts wnat you wit Ones LJ Choch box 6 Angled Preview k 0 Horizontal O None Splitters yok O Cancel Picture 15 Co
31. le enables the technical filters targeting professionals of computer area Picture 4 Profile selection The graphical mode of FilterAny can be configured in many ways The internal areas can be altered in size position and place The FilterAny main window can use many different graphical elements and use splitters internal windows or frames that is the standard initial configuration Independently of the mode being used the Main Input Area Auxiliar Input Area and Output Area are always presented the same way the same for the filter selection and filter configuration areas 2 1 Input and output areas All the input areas Main Input Area Auxiliar Input Area and Output area use the same structure according to picture 5 Page 3 Emma Modified K bi fo O The FilterAny was created to help on tedious tasks when working with text files It is only necessary to execute 4 la sequence of filters tqggenerate the expected result Ins cases that is trivial in other cass it can be compared to a simple puzzle 1 2 3 Line 6 Column 24 O Gwu O Picture 5 Standard structure of any Editing Area They use the following parts 1 Window title 2 Text status 3 Line numbers 4 Text being edited 5 Manual indentation of the selected text full screen text editor undo redo and text information buttons respectively 6 Line and column where the cursor is 7 Visible area indication 8 Bu
32. n be required or optional The required fields are flagged with the text Required and have a red background color Position Required The optional fields area flagged with the text Optional and have a green background color Number of characters Optional Some parameters accept only numbers and no letters or signs appear if such keys are pressed 22 3 Filter execution To execute a filter it is necessary to supply the texts to be filtered on the Main and Auxiliar area depending on the filter type In case the filter should be applied on only part of the text then the part to be filtered should be selected The texts outside the selection will remain unchanged The required parameters should be provided and the optional ones can be provided 1f they are relevant Finally the button O Execute can be pressed 2 2 4 Execution on multiple files On the graphical interface it is possible to apply the filters on the texts that are on the editing areas and also on files at some directory on the file system To apply the filter on multiple files on the file system it is necessary first to indicate the names of the files on the Main Area To do so one can use the search filter Q Search _ gy Search files In this filter it is necessary to indicate the file name or directory name It is possible to indicate the file extensions that should be included in the search like txt html log In case there are files in sub
33. ne can call SYS MyExe exe parameter 1 4 3 10 SET This command allow the creation of definitions related to source directories or files to be used as source or target and can be called on many filters The example below shows the use of the SET command to define the source directory and the output file The objective of this Script is to generate a list of the content of a CD DVD or BlueRay Set DRIVE D Set DESTINATION MyDVD_Content txt Tree Sempty Starget d1 DRIVE c1 Yes c2 Yes Append File Sempty Starget dl DRIVE c1 Yes Copy Starget DESTINATION Page 22 4 3 11 Encodings The text files can be saved using many different encodings to show different types of special characters according to the language being used One file saved on one specific encoding can not work when read using a different encoding Ths command shows the list of available encodings like Big5 hp roman8 IBM00858 IBM277 ISO 2022 CN ISO 8859 1 Shift_JIS US ASCII UTF 16 UTF 8 windows 1250 x IBM1025 x MacRoman and many more 4 3 12 InputEncoding This command specify which encoding should be used when reading text files This command should be followed by the encoding name that should be one of the encoding shown by the Encodings command 4 3 13 Detect The FilterAny has a way to try to identify the file encoding before it is read This method generates good results but it is not 100 guaranteed Just issue Detect comm
34. nfiguration window of the graphical interface In this window it is possible to change Theme 8 Depend on look and feel Force theme window Do not use theme window Internal theme 8 Smooth Basic Flat Bubble Applies to some look and feels Eclipse No stack Controls on the right J Use vertical split Page 13 e the look and feel between 72 options e update the distribution of Editing Areas between splitters internal windows or frames e change the language between English and Portuguese e if the areas are saved automatically ignored or a message informing that the areas is not saved should be presented e if the configuration parameters of the filters should have an icon to clean them up or if the content is cleaned when the mouse is shake over the field 2 4 File compare The FilterAny provides a quick way to compare the text between the editing areas This can be done bu the Compare menu With this menu it is possible to compare any combination of the editirng areas as shown on picture 16 is Compare Main with Output l Compare Main with Auxiliar Sis Compare Auxiliar with Output Picture 16 Menu to compare text areas The comparison window shows the texts being compared side by side The plus sign indicates that some text as added and a minus sign indicates that a content has been removed There can be some indications thou
35. ng 2 1 4 Text being edited The text stored on the editing area can be greater then the visible space In this case use the scroll bar to visualize the other parts of the text This area is prepared to work with only text characters and not with graphical characters or pictures 2 1 5 Full screen text editor undo redo and text information buttons The internal editors of Filter Any are compact to easy the fast editing of texts and filters execution In some circumstances it is necessary to do a more detailed editor To do that it is possible to use the button G It is available on each of the three editing areas Input Ouput and Auxiliar Once the button is pressed the the editing area will be converted into a full screen editor like picture 6 This editor has some configurations on the bottom of the window Here is a list of each configuration 1 Show tabulation Allow the tabulations to be seen as arrows This allow the user to distinguish between spaces and tabulations 2 White background Each full screen editor has the background color of the original editor inside the FilterAny This configuration allows the background to be painted with white colors for a better visualization in case it is necessary 3 Text format Depending on the text content the editor can color key works Just select one of the possible available types ActionScript Assember x86 BBCode C Closure C C Sharp CSS Delphy Fortran Groovy HTML Java
36. r KnapF Knap Bean JSP Brks Coms Remove invalid characters and allow only letters symbols and provided characters This filter makes a simple copy of the content Inserts the provided parameter on the beginning of each line Inserts the provided parameter on the end of each line Inserts the provided parameter on a specific position in the line Add a provided parameter right before another specified parameter Add a provided parameter right after another specified parameter Enumerate all or only the selected lines in ascending order Leave only the top most first occurrence of a duplicated line Remove also the first occurrence of duplicated lines Keep only the first occurrence of duplicated lines and remove the others Remove lines with no content Remove the lines that have the provided parameter in it Remove the lines that does not have the provided parameter in it Eliminate the lines with length more and less than the specified Replace the content of Search for parameter by the content of Replace by parameter Search for regular expressions matches then replace them by new content Append each line on itself a certain number of times Sort the all or the selected lines in ascendant order Sort the all or the selected lines in descendant order Sort in ascendant order based on the characters after a position Sort in descendant order based on the c
37. s reached E Controls mm Insert Auxiliar into Main Line Optional e Column Optional Ml _ Force position Picture 3 Filter Configuration Area Each filter can be configured independently Once a filter is selected the filter configuration area is adapted automatically to the selected filter as shown on picture 3 Amongst the configuration items there is a button with a text icon called Example It provides the texts exemplifying the filter execution There is another button with the label Help to get an explanation about the filter If the Help button is disabled then the help is on automatic mode and each time a filter is selected it s instructions are presented automatically Use the tool bar to enable or disable this behavior The FilterAny also provide an execution through command line for advanced users It is possible to execute three types of action 1 Execute a filter Page 2 2 Execute a sequence of filters specified on a script 3 Open the console mode where it is possible to interact with FilterAny With these information it is possible to work with the FilterAny The filters name are well descriptive and the example button and local help are always available in the main window 2 Graphical Mode When FilterAny is executed by the first time a profile selection window will appear like the picture 4 The basic mode enables the generic filters and the advanced profi
38. tory_1 file_1_A txt Temp directory_1 file_1_B txt Temp file_A txt SA E O CQ OEE iG A AT a A A E A A gS oS dl Temp file_B txt To apply a filter on all these files it is necessary to switch to file mode This will make FilterAny analyze all lines and identify the target files instead of treating of working as this was a simple text Filemode File mode activated Before executing the command to remove the duplicated lines it is possible to see how the parameters for this filter should be written This can be done by using the command Help Help RemD Remove duplicated lines and leave only the top most first occurrence of a duplicated line Usage RemD input file or Svariable output file or variable c1 Yes or No c2 Yes or No lt optional positioning parameters gt Use the cl parameter to not consider empty lines on the search for duplicated lines Use the c2 parameter to not consider spaces and tabulations from the beginning and from the end of the lines To execute the command RemD it is necessary to provide the input parameter In this case this list is stored on the memory variable created Variable 1 The output can be ignored because the filter will not generate a text but it will generate many files This is why it is necessary to provide the parameter TDir to indicate the target directory The two parameters cl and c2 are explained above The files generated are according to the dire
39. ttons to control the temporary memory Each one of these parts has a very specific function 2 1 1 Windows title The window title indicate the purpose of the area that can be Main Input Area Auxiliar Input Area and Output Area The majority of the filteres use only the Main Input Area but there are some filters that consider the content of both Main Input Area and Auxiliar Input Area to produce the output 2 1 2 Text status The text status show the information about the text being edited Why FilterAny is initiated the text status is Initiated also This indicate that the editor is ready to receive new texts Right after some text is inserted the text status switch to Modified This status indicates that these information are not saved into a file Depending on the configuration FilterAny can indicate which areas are not saved and if it is desired to save the content or if the contents area saved automatically or even if the contents area ignored and are not going to be saved Depending of the filter selected the Auxiliar Input Area can be disabled In this case the text status shows the word Disabled There is a button on the toolbar with the following icon It starts a text verification The text status will be updated with a content similar to Page 4 236610 Byte s 42075 Word s 3960 Line s Type of the end line UNIX This indicates that the text in the editing area is using 236610 b
40. ytes including the new line characters The new lines characters can use 1 or 2 characters depending on the type of the new line On UNIX type the new lines uses byte only hexadecimal character 13 and on DOS type the new line uses 2 bytes hexadecimal characters 10 and 13 The indication 42075 Word s refer to the sequence of characters delimited by spaces that is dates and other groups of characters The indication of 3960 Line s shows the number of lines including the empty lines that have no characters Finally the indication of the type of the end of line can be DOS or UNIX When working with Windows operational system the preferred type should be DOS otherwise the lines can appear all in one line on many applications like the note pad In case of working with Linux then the preferred type should be the UNIX otherwise the lines may end with the character M 6645499 in case of using the editors such as vi The easiest way to insert content on the Input Areas is to copy and text from any tool into some Input Area This can be done by using the keys Ctrl C to copy the text from the tool and Ctrl V to paste the content on any of the Input Areas of the Filter Any 2 1 3 Line numbering On the left side of the editing areas it is possible to see the number of each line The line where the cursor is will be painted with red color When a text selection is done using the mouse or the key board then the line numbers will be blinki
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