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Is there a command-line program that determines the status of files (uploaded, uploading, ineligible, etc) in the iCloud drive?

For example, I would like to be able to use a program such as find to get a list of files that have not been successfully uploaded to iCloud drive.

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You can use brctl status.

It outputs alot, but you can grep pretty easily, for example brctl status |grep needs-sync-up |cut -d'"' -f2 will show you all files waiting for being uploaded (without their path), or use brctl status |grep 'somefile.ext' for checking the status of somefile.ext.

See brctl --help for more.

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    On macOS Monterey, this brctl command is no longer readable. I haven’t yet figured if it’s an intentional change or there’s just more clutter when files are all synced (false positives to be filtered out)
    – bmike ♦
    Jul 14, 2022 at 11:46

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