Show file info in Hierarchy

[Tom Carlson]

Hi,

This is my first time here, so I hope I am using the correct verbiage:

I have used BBEdit to create a hierarchical folder tree of the contents of a hard drive which I am archiving. I simply dragged the top level folder into the BBEdit window and the tree was created. From that point, I can copy and paste it into Excel for further tweaking and delivery. I am wondering now if there is a simple way to also list file info such as date created and size for the files in the same hierarchal list.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Tom Carlson

[Fletcher Sandbeck]

You are probably better off getting the data in the Terminal.  Open a Terminal window and type:

ls -l | bbedit

That will do a listing of the current directory and pipe it to BBEdit.  Note that the character before “bbedit” is a vertical-bar and not a lowercase L.

[fletcher]

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[Tom Carlson]

Thank you Fletcher. I tried that but it didn't seem to work. Here is my command and the response:

Toms-MacBook-Pro:4 D2 Mix tomcarlson$ ls -l | bbedit

-bash: bbedit: command not found

Toms-MacBook-Pro:4 D2 Mix tomcarlson$ 

Am I typing something incorrectly here? By the way, this is my first time using the terminal as well, so I wouldn't be surprised if I'm messing up the syntax somehow...

Tom

[Rich Siegel]

On Thursday, June 19, 2014, Tom Carlson <tomm...@me.com> wrote:

>Toms-MacBook-Pro:4 D2 Mix tomcarlson$ ls -l | bbedit
>
>-bash: bbedit: command not found

You will need to install the BBEdit command-line tools; see the
"Install Command Line Tools" command in the "BBEdit" menu. (For
App Store builds this will take you to a web page requiring a
separate download and installation process.)

R.
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[Tom Carlson]

Aha! Thanks, Rich!

[Charlie Garrison]

Good morning,

On 19/06/14 at 12:34 PM -0700, Fletcher Sandbeck
<flet...@cumuli.com> wrote:

>ls -l | bbedit

Or, since you want file hierarchy:

ls -lR | bbedit

You could also write a script to process the listing that BBEdit
creates to get the file stats, but try Fletcher's suggestion first.


Charlie

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