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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Print (or export to a spreadsheet) all the information
 displayed when Finder is looking at a folder (OS X 10.13 High Sierra)
Date: 30 Apr 2024 22:56:20 GMT
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On 2024-04-30, Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
> On 4/30/24 8:56 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>
>> On 2024-04-30, Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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,
>
> Thanks!  That's EXACTLY what I'm looking for.
>
> Ironically, I had actually done "man stat" ... but I didn't see all 
> those formatting parameters.  I must have been looking way too late at 
> night ... when my brain turns into a pumpkin.
>
>> I would use comma characters for delimiters to make it a CSV file, then
>> open that in a spreadsheet program.
>
> I was just thinking about that.  Thanks!  (I think Excel can separate on 
> tabs as well, though.  But it's always good to have different options. 
> And maybe it saves you from having to do copy-and-paste.)
>
> One more thing, if either of you knows why this might be:
>
> If <filename> has not already been created, I get an error message.
>
> If I create <filename> first, there's no error message, and it seems to 
> be running fine ... except ... it doesn't seem to do anything -- nothing 
> gets written to <filename>!
>
> Any ideas?  Maybe it's another casualty of over-full HD?

What is the command you are using, and what is the error output?

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