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 2024-05-30, Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
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On 5/4/24 1:43 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
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On 2024-05-03, Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
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I forgot to ask.  Can I add something to your now-working line
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stat -f '%SN,%SB,%Sm' * > file_times.txt
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to reformat date and time?  Either within the -f format description or
piping it to something else?
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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.
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Thanks in advance.

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Create a plain text file named "lister.sh" with these contents:
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
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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
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Make the script executable with this command in the same directory as
the script:
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chmod +x lister.sh
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Run the script in a terminal window like so:
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./lister.sh > file_times.csv

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As I mentioned in another thread (in another ng, actually,
comp.sys.mac.apps) I didn't have time to try your suggestion until quite
recently, and didn't have time to thank you until just now.
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It worked perfectly!  And it's clear enough that I can modify it myself
to do another couple of minor things I might want to do.
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Thanks!

 You're welcome. Glad to hear it worked for you.
 You may find this funny. I was told just in the past day or two by a
resident troll in the iPhone news group that I have never written a
single line of code. He also claims I never made it through high school
along with a bunch of other juvenile personal attacks. 🤣