Bat Filer is a program that let's you do things that can't be easily done with Apple's Finder‚Ñ¢ software: manipulate groups of files (possibly in many folders) at once. For example, you can lock a set of files with a single command, or copy files from several different folders to a single destination folder.
Bat Filer's operation centers around a list (or, batch) of files. Files are added to the list either:
• one at a time from a standard file dialog,
• or by folder; adding a folder to the list adds all the files in that folder, including files in folders inside the original folder, etc,
• or by searching the currently mounted volumes for files that match criteria that you set.
Once you have a list, you can do things to all the files in it, such as:
• Set the Type and/or Creator of files.
• Rename files.
• Lock/Unlock files.
• Move files to a folder.
• Make copies of files.
• Delete the files.
• Launch an application, passing files to it.
Bat Filer also allows you to perform these operations on any individual file.
Some of Bat Filer's other abilities include:
• Opening and printing text files.
• Peeking at any file, showing the graphic contents of certain types of graphic file, version data on applications, and "raw bytes" of other type files.
• Generating and printing Reports on the file list.
