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

./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

icon IMAGE_PATH FOLDER_PATH <flags>

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