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)

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject	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)
Date	2024-05-30 00:43 +0000
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On 2024-05-30, Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
> On 5/4/24 1:43 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> 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:
>>>
>>> 	set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
>>>
>>> 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
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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. 🤣

-- 
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JR

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Print (or export to a spreadsheet) all the information displayed when Finder is looking at a folder (OS X 10.13 High Sierra) Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2024-04-29 18:51 -0700
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