Thanks Junior-Helper this is almost perfect. The only issue is the justification. This information is going to be put into excel and im trying to avoid additional manipulation/trouble with the import if the columns arent aligned.
Right now the output is size column right justified - which is perfect, but the date/time and name columns are there but not justified properly. Im looking for it to have the justification as if the

Code:

ls -lh

command was run. Again, this is because its going into excel and there will be a few thousand entries to correct.

Also, can you direct me to a good source to learn more about how the syntax for different commands should go?

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sorry, i didnt see your 6:16pm post before i added mine. I will test the new line in a few minutes and see if its working for me. thanks

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just tried

Code:

paste -d' ' <(du -hs *) <(ls -lh)

didnt come out too good. The best way is your previous method. I just need help on the justification part now for the date/time and name columns. - thanks

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Junior Helper,
I will post the results from the last two tests in a minute, your code is wkg but off one line. just a heads up so you dont reply before i add the info

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This is where i am:

Using code

Code:

paste -d' ' \
 <(du -hs * | awk -F'\t' '{printf "%8s\n", $1}') \
 <(ls -lh | awk 'NR>1{for (i=6;i<=NF;i++) printf "%s ", $i; print ""}')

the output comes out with all the necessary columns except that date/time and name columns are not justified as in

Code:

ls -lh

using code

Code:

paste -d' ' \
 <(du -hs * | awk -F'\t' '{printf "%8s\n", $1}') \
 <(ls -lh)

the output comes out with all required colums - size, date/time, name justified correctly, except that the size column starts where the Total folder size line begins

Code:

<ls -lh)

resulting in all lines of the output being off one (showing the previous lines actual size).
What should be modified to get this corrected?

Thanks very much