Re: Another question Re: Print (or export to a spreadsheet) all the information displayed when Finder is looking at a folder (OS X 10.13 High Sierra)

On 2024-05-03, Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:

I forgot to ask.  Can I add something to your now-working line
>
stat -f '%SN,%SB,%Sm' * > file_times.txt
>
to reformat date and time?  Either within the -f format description or
piping it to something else?
>
On the internet I found this, supposedly to simply reformat date and
time, for everything, during a session:
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set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
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But it doesn't seem to be working either.  I execute it, then do "date"
or "ls -l" or whatever ... and the date and time are still displayed in
the same format as ever.
>
Thanks in advance.

Create a plain text file named "lister.sh" with these contents:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

for file in ./*; do
  filename=`basename "$file"`
 
  created=`stat -f '%SB' "$filename"`
  modified=`stat -f '%Sm' "$filename"`
 
  created_s=`date -j -f "%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y" "$created" "+%F %H:%M:%S"`
  modified_s=`date -j -f "%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y" "$modified" "+%F %H:%M:%S"`
 
  echo "$filename,$created_s,$modified_s"
done

Make the script executable with this command in the same directory as
the script:

chmod +x lister.sh

Run the script in a terminal window like so:

./lister.sh > file_times.csv

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