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

From	Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject	Print (or export to a spreadsheet) all the information displayed when Finder is looking at a folder (OS X 10.13 High Sierra)
Date	2024-04-29 18:51 -0700
Organization	Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company
Message-ID	<v0piqb$232f5$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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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 
spreadsheet.

In the built-in FreeBSD, the results of "ls" can be printed as text; 
then the text can be put into a spreadsheet without too much trouble, by 
figuring out the appropriate separator(s).  Unfortunately, "ls" does not 
display Creation Date, only Latest Access Date or Latest Modification 
Date.  (Likewise for other Unix-like systems, apparently.)  And the 
Creation Date is the one I need most.

In the OS, you can take a screenshot and save it as a PDF.  But I don't 
think it's a PDF from which text can be extracted.  I'm not sure, though 
... because I can't find where the PDF is being saved ... or if it's 
being saved at all!  (Probably because of the very reason why I want 
this info, namely, to help decide which files to delete, since my HD is 
so clogged that the computer is slowed down to almost zero.)

The online recommendation I found for printing from the OS says to copy 
it by hand(!) into the spreadsheet or text file.

Anyone know how to get at least a text file of the name and the Creation 
Date?  As automatically as possible?

(P.S.  OS X 10.13 because I'm dubious about putting anything later on my 
late-2013 MacBook Pro, and I can't afford a new computer right now.)

-- 
Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
San Francisco

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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
  Re: Print (or export to a spreadsheet) all the information displayed when   Finder is looking at a folder (OS X 10.13 High Sierra) Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2024-04-30 03:09 +0000
    Re: Print (or export to a spreadsheet) all the information displayed when   Finder is looking at a folder (OS X 10.13 High Sierra) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-04-30 15:56 +0000
      Re: 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> - 2024-04-30 14:22 -0700
        Re: Print (or export to a spreadsheet) all the information displayed when Finder is looking at a folder (OS X 10.13 High Sierra) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-04-30 22:56 +0000
          Re: 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> - 2024-05-01 19:44 -0700
            Re: Print (or export to a spreadsheet) all the information displayed when Finder is looking at a folder (OS X 10.13 High Sierra) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-05-02 15:37 +0000
              Re: Print (or export to a spreadsheet) all the information displayed when Finder is looking at a folder (OS X 10.13 High Sierra) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-05-02 15:42 +0000
                Re: 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> - 2024-05-02 10:34 -0700
                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) Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2024-05-03 11:50 -0700
                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) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-05-04 20:43 +0000
                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) Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2024-05-29 17:34 -0700
                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) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2024-05-30 00:43 +0000
                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) Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2024-06-02 16:20 -0700
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    Re: 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> - 2024-04-30 14:27 -0700

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