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

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

Usage

change-icon <image-path> <file-path> --recursive --randomize

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

• --recursive: flag

  Whether or not to change all sub folders icons

• --randomize: flag

  Randomize the image from the folder given in image-path