Formatting LIST output

[YDY]

FTP is used a lot for automated internal data transfers between systems at night, etc. Some of these systems have a need to parse the LIST output. This can be hard to do when each FTP server's output is slightly different. See attachment.

What would make FileZilla Server extremely powerful would be if the user could define the format of LIST output, for those cases where it's not possible to define it on the client system. For example:

1 type 2 perms 12 links 15 user 24 group 32 size 42 date 55 filename:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
-r-xr-xr-x 1 noone nogroup 148943 Apr 29 2013 042913
-r-xr-xr-x 1 noone nogroup 53 Aug 30 2012 1
-r-xr-xr-x 1 noone nogroup 2492297 Oct 18 14:05 10181301
-r-xr-xr-x 1 noone nogroup 88260 Oct 18 14:10 10181302

Would define which column each field should be displayed. Unlisted fields would not be displayed:

1 filename 14 size 25 date

1 2 3 4

1234567890123456789012345678901234567890

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Would look like this:

042913 148943 Apr 29 2013
ABCDEFGH.EXT 53 Aug 30 2012
10181301 2492297 Oct 18 14:05
10181302 88260 Oct 18 14:10
10181303 798 Oct 18 14:19

The format string could be specified by the admin in the settings area of FileZilla. It be most useful if there is a global setting and also each login could have it's own format to override the global definition.

[YDY]

FTP LISTs from various FTP servers