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I would like to list the files (ideally with an md5sum) within a directory and subdirectories in Ubuntu and output the results to a csv file. I would like the output to be in the following format.

File Name, File Path, File Size (bytes), Created Date Time (dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss), Modified Date Time (dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss), md5sum

I have played around with the ls command but can seem to get the output correct. Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks

simonc
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Create the following script that outputs a CSV line for a given filepath argument:

#!/bin/bash
set -eu

filepath=$1
qfilepath=${filepath//\\/\\\\}   # Quote backslashes.
qfilepath=${qfilepath//\"/\\\"}  # Quote doublequotes.

file=${qfilepath##*/}            # Remove the path.

stats=($(stat -c "%s %W %Y" "$filepath"))
size=${stats[0]}
ctime=$(date --date @"${stats[1]}" +'%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S')
mtime=$(date --date @"${stats[2]}" +'%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S')

md5=$(md5sum < "$filepath")
md5=${md5%% *}                   # Remove the dash.

printf '"%s","%s",%s,%s,%s,%s\n' \
    "$file" "$qfilepath" "$size" "$ctime" "$mtime" $md5

Now call it with

find /path/to/dir -type f -exec ~/csvline.sh {} \;

Note that the creation time is often not supported by the file system.

choroba
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