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finder_colors.py
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Set or inspect the colors that Apple OSX Finder assigns to files or folders.
Usable as a standalone script, or it can be imported as a python module.
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Standalone Usage:
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To find out the color of a file or folder: ::
finder_colors.py $filename
returns: ::
filename colorname
You can check multiple files at once, with: ::
finder_colors.py $file1 $file2 $file3
or from the shell, wildcards ::
finder_colors.py *.txt
To set the color: ::
finder_colors.py $color $filename
You can assign multiple files at once by: ::
finder_colors.py $color $filename $filename2 $filename3 $etc
so in a shell: ::
finder_colors.py red *.py
would set all python scripts to red.
Options for colors are: ::
none, gray, green, purple, blue, yellow, red, orange
If you're worried that you may have files in the list which could be valid
color names, then simply invoke using path names ( `./filename` rather than
`filename`, or with wildcards `./*` rather than `*`).
This is good practice in general.
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As a python module:
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After installing (by PIP): ::
>>> import finder_colors
>>> finder_colors.get('/path/to/file')
'none'
>>> finder_colors.set('/path/to/file', 'red')
'\x00........'
The value returned by `set(pathname, color)` is the complete
com.apple.FinderInfo attribute list of that file. You can probably ignore it.
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Installation:
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Either with pip ::
pip install finder_colors
Or simply download the finder_colors.py script, and put it somewhere in
your $PATH (usually /usr/local/bin works...) and run ::
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/finder_colors.py
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Licence:
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MIT Licenced, so pretty much do what you want with it. Here's the details:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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