Convert ls output into csv

Question

How would I convert:

$ find . -ls > /tmp/files.txt

Which gives me something like:

908715       40 -rwxrwxr-x    1 david            staff               16542 Nov 15 14:12 ./dump_info.py
908723        0 drwxr-xr-x    2 david            staff                  68 Nov 20 17:35 ./metadata

Into a csv output? It would look like:

908715,40,-rwxrwxr-x,1,david,staff,16542,Nov 15 14:12,./dump_info.py
908723,0,drwxr-xr-x,2,david,staff,68,Nov 20 17:35,./metadata

Here is an example title with spaces in the filename:

652640,80,-rw-rw-r--,1,david,staff,40036,Nov,6,15:32,./v_all_titles/V Catalog Report 11.5.xlsx

Answer 1

It's a bit long to type in at the command-line, but it properly preserves spaces in the filename (and quotes it, too!)

find . -ls | python -c '
import sys
for line in sys.stdin:
    r = line.strip("\n").split(None, 10)
    fn = r.pop()
    print ",".join(r) + ",\"" + fn.replace("\"", "\"\"") + "\""
'