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 Apr 29, 2024 at 6:51:05 PM PDT, "Dudley Brooks"
<dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:

I want to print out all the File Names, their Creation Dates, and their
Modification Dates.  (Printing all the other info is fine too.)  If
possible, I would like to do it in a form that can be easily put into a

You can use the stat utility in a command-line shell in the Terminal
application to print out creation and modification times for any file.

Use 'man stat' for details. Use the -f option to specifiy the content and
format for the fields to be displayed.

You want the following format specifiers:

    %SN  to display the file name
    %SB  to display the creation (birth) time
    %Sm  to display the modification time
    %t    to insert tab characters between fields

So the following should give you what you want:

    stat -f '%SN%t%SB%t%Sm' *

Redirect the output to a file:

    stat -f '%SN%t%SB%t%Sm' * > file_times.txt

and you can import that into a spreadsheet specifying tab characters to
separate columns,

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Jim Gibson