Folder Content List

Is there any way to export a folder (and ideally sub folders) content list to,say, a .CSV file. I would like the file names, creation date and size and I don't mind if all the sub folder contents are listed in one long list.

If no one comes back with a way to do so from the GUI, I'll post a way to gain a text-file with this information from the command line.

So, I fooled around with Automator and can get you part of the way if you're looking for a GUI option:

That won't give you the creation date or size but it will print the name of every file (recursively) to a text document on your Desktop called "Untitled.txt."

There is of course "ls -lhR" from the command line that will print the date, size and name of each file in a particular folder (this is the command line way). To be honest though, I'm not sure if the date printed is the modified date or the creation date. I'll have to defer to Dysfunction here.

Thanks guys. I've never managed to get Automator to do what I want but will try this if only for educational purposes. Dysfunction - do you have a command line option to go through the subfolders.
For what I need to do, I'm not too fussed exactly which date is picked up and having to do each subfolder in turn would not be a deal breaker - just a little time consuming.

Would something like the following accomplish what you're looking for (I can always tweak it)?

find . -type d -exec ls -lh {} \; |cut -f6- -d ' ' would also work, depending on how you want it presented.

mikeMBP:testdir mike$ find . -type d -exec ls -lh {} \; |cut -f6- -d ' '

136B Aug 18 07:06 Live At The Whiskey A Go-Go
238B Aug 18 07:06 More Fun In The New World

3.1M Aug 18 07:06 X - Live At The Whiskey A Go-Go - Blue Spark.mp3
4.9M Aug 18 07:06 X - Live At The Whiskey A Go-Go - Johnny Hit And Run Pauline.mp3

3.2M Aug 18 07:06 X - More Fun In The New World - Breathless.mp3
2.8M Aug 18 07:06 X - More Fun In The New World - I See Red.mp3
2.8M Aug 18 07:06 X - More Fun In The New World - Poor Girl.mp3
3.1M Aug 18 07:06 X - More Fun In The New World - The New World.mp3
2.9M Aug 18 07:06 X - More Fun In The New World - We-re Having Much More Fun.m

Mine is incorrect (according to your needs) - it should be the following: which prints out the following: To be honest, I wasn't sure how to get rid of the first line (which represents the file count printed back by the "-l" switch). If I did this with directories and attempted to do it recursively, I got the following: In that case, test.txt and the "src" folder are at one level and the main.py file is in the src folder. After some fiddling, I have come up with the following: That outputs the following (as "user,size,modification date,file/folder"): The only final problem I see is that you have no way of telling what is in the src folder (as I noted, the "main.py" file is in that folder). If I figure that out, I'll report back.

Dysfunction's solution probably works better. I'm partly doing this for the learning now.

tree would be ideal for building this, too bad I do a 'which tree' and return null

Just for you. Built it here - the instructions worked perfectly.

Thanks everyone. For the record I found dydfunctions find command line did just what I wanted.