site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On 15 Dec 2009, at 10:11, Mo McRoberts wrote:

On 15-Dec-2009, at 10:07, Geoff Lee wrote:

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Sorry this is a bit off topic but this seems like the kind of place I might find an answer. I want to assign a custom icon to a folder using, ideally, a bit of shell script/perl/python, though I'm not averse to building a little binary if that will do the trick.

You want the Rez and SetFile utilities, which will do it for you.

(a script which I have to do it as part of a build here, adjust ${CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR}/icon-resource.icns to suit):

Fantastic. I had never noticed the Rez tool before: it's exactly what I need. Thanks a lot! -geoff

#! /bin/sh

icon="$SCRIPT_INPUT_FILE_0" target="$SCRIPT_OUTPUT_FILE_0"

REZ=/Developer/usr/bin/Rez SETFILE=/Developer/usr/bin/SetFile

cp "$icon" ${CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR}/icon-resource.icns || exit $? echo "read 'icns' (-16455) \"icon-resource.icns\";" > ${CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR}/icon-resource.r ifile="`printf \"$target/Icon\r\"`" $REZ -o "$ifile" ${CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR}/icon-resource.r || exit $? rm -f ${CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR}/icon-resource.icns rm -f ${CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR}/icon-resource.r $SETFILE -a C "$target" $SETFILE -a V "$ifile"

Cheers,

Mo.

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