https://github.com/eroxl/macos-folder-icon-changer

📁 A simple command line tool for changing the icons of folders or files on MacOS.
https://github.com/eroxl/macos-folder-icon-changer

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📁 A simple command line tool for changing the icons of folders or files on MacOS.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/eroxl/macos-folder-icon-changer
• Owner: Eroxl
• Created: 2021-11-07T02:49:54.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-01-12T02:24:15.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-06T12:34:14.387Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: cli, command-line, command-line-tool, customization, mac, macos, macos-customization, python
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.32 MB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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## Mac OS File Icon Changer

### Description

A small and simple script to quickly change large amounts or a few files and folders icons to easily customize them. You can use this script as a backbone for creating much more customizable scripts to use on your folders. This is meant to help automating of customization which is already fairly limited on Mac.

### Instalation

Install Using The Automatic Script

```bash

./install-change-icon

```

#### Installation Description

The auto installation script auto installs the pip packages from requirements.txt and then copies change-icon into /usr/local/bin/ and then creates a reference to it in ~/.zshrc if you use a different shell just install it by yourself.

### Usage

```bash

icon IMAGE_PATH FOLDER_PATH 

```

#### Parameter Descriptions

\* required parameters

* ##### * image-path: string

    The path to the image you want to set the icon to or path to folder of icons if you're using --randomize

* ##### * file-path: string

    The path to the file of the icon you want to change

* ##### --file_glob_pattern: string (default: '*')

    The file glob pattern to check when changing the files of sub folders using the --recursive flag

* ##### --recursive: boolean (default: false)

    Recursively change all sub folders icons as well based on the --file_glob_pattern provided