Many powerful search features:

• launch A Better Finder Rename or A Better Finder Attributes with the selected files
• produce tab delimited file lists for processing with A Better Finder Rename
• use UNIX-style wild cards to select files, e.g. *.doc, image*.gif, etc.
• use Grep or Perl-style regular expressions (details)
• select all files that are digital camera pictures with valid EXIF information
• select all files that contain a particular character string
• select all files that begin with a particular character string
• select all files that end in a particular character string
• select all files that match a particular creator or type code
• select files and folders separately or together
• recursively select files and folders in subfolders

• simply press the Control-Command-S hot key
• fully integrated with the Finder via the contextual menu
• drop the files onto the application icon

• user interface is similiar to A Better Finder Rename
• the ability to configure the hot key combination by using the "A Better Finder" preferences panel ("Apple" menu -> "System Preferences..." )
• persistent settings (the tool will automatically remember your last settings)
• fully integrated with the Macintosh Finder

This product is no longer under ongoing development.

Version 3.7.1

19th April 2006

The new version updates the System Preferences Pane and the Hot Key Component to address a minor installation bug.

Regular Expressions

Check out the format of the regular expressions that you can use to formulate queries in A Better Finder Select.

Note that this is for power users, such as programmers. Most people will be better of with the easier options such as wildcards.