Nov 19, 2007
Batch changing file types/creators
For some reason when downloading files via FTP with Interarchy, all my .html files
end up being owned by IE (yuck). Here’s a handy one-liner to fix that (run from the directory containing the errant files). You’ll need the developer tools installed to get SetFile.
find . -name "*.html" | xargs /Developer/Tools/SetFile -c R*ch
This sets the file creator to R*ch, which is BBEdit’s creator code.
Of course the *.html can be changed to change other files, like *.txt.
You can also use the -t option to set the file type, for example
-t TEXT.
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