Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Write directory listing to CSV in Windows PowerShell

This one-line command will invoke Windows PowerShell to write a directory listing to a CSV file, which is easy to use in spreadsheets and database programs. It recurses subfolders, and it includes the following information: full file name, creation time, last modified time, file size, and owner (last modified by).

To use it, simply modify the two paths: directory to scan and path to the CSV.

powershell "Get-ChildItem -Recurse c:\directory\to\scan\ | ForEach-Object {$_ | add-member -name "Owner" -membertype noteproperty -value (get-acl $_.fullname).owner -passthru} | Sort-Object fullname | Select FullName,CreationTime,LastWriteTime,Length,Owner | Export-Csv -Force -NoTypeInformation c:\folder\to\directory.csv"

Tested on Windows 7 Enterprise.

I use it as part of an automatic process to archive a folder with Git.

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