Bulk copy name and Creation Date from multiple files in a folder

[godzfire]

Basically the title. I have a bunch of files inside a folder that I want to get the Date Created from and copy it into a text document or some kind of tab delimited document. I have no idea how to do this.

Opening each one and manually copy/pasting the Creation Date is not an option, as this is hundreds of files.

 

[Bigwaff]

Since you are asking this question, I will assume Unix shell scripting is not a realistic option w/out someone writing and troubleshooting the script for you so....

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[mfram]

Shell command to return comma-separated filename, Create, Modified, Accessed times would be:

find Documents -type f -exec stat -f "%N,%Sc,%Sm,%Sa" {} \;

Replace "Documents" with the directory name you want. If the directory name or path has spaces in it, it must be enclosed by double-quotes. You can actually drag a Folder from Finder into a Terminal window and it will fill in the path for you.

This 'find' command says to find all files under directory "Documents" and execute 'stat -f "%N,%Sc,%Sm,%Sa"' on the file. The 'stat' command gets information about a file.

 

[Oversleep1147]

Shell command to return comma-separated filename, Create, Modified, Accessed times would be:

find Documents -type f -exec stat -f "%N,%Sc,%Sm,%Sa" {} \;

Replace "Documents" with the directory name you want. If the directory name or path has spaces in it, it must be enclosed by double-quotes. You can actually drag a Folder from Finder into a Terminal window and it will fill in the path for you.

This 'find' command says to find all files under directory "Documents" and execute 'stat -f "%N,%Sc,%Sm,%Sa"' on the file. The 'stat' command gets information about a file.

On top of mfram's suggestion, if you want an output to a text file,

find Documents -type f -exec stat -f "%N,%Sc,%Sm,%Sa" {} \; > output.txt