# See:
# http://osxutils.sourceforge.net
# http://www.sveinbjorn.org/osxutils_docs

cd ~/Desktop
curl -L -O http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/osxutils/osxutils1.7.pkg.zip
unzip -qq osxutils1.7.pkg.zip
open -a Installer osxutils1.7.pkg

/bin/mkdir -p ~/Desktop/IconDir
/bin/cp /Library/Desktop\ Pictures/Nature{/Ladybug.jpg,'/Evening Reflections.jpg'} ~/Desktop/IconDir
/usr/bin/sips -i ~/Desktop/IconDir/*

/usr/bin/touch ~/Desktop/IconDir/testfile.txt
/bin/chmod 0777 ~/Desktop/IconDir/*

ls -l ~/Desktop/IconDir/*

open ~/Desktop/IconDir

# set icon
/usr/local/bin/seticon ~/Desktop/IconDir/Ladybug.jpg ~/Desktop/IconDir/testfile.txt

# update file system changes of open Finder window
/usr/local/bin/wsupdate ~/Desktop/IconDir/testfile.txt
#/bin/mv ~/Desktop/IconDir{/testfile.txt,/tmp.txt} && /bin/mv ~/Desktop/IconDir{/tmp.txt,/testfile.txt} 


# set icon
/usr/local/bin/seticon ~/Desktop/IconDir/'Evening Reflections'.jpg ~/Desktop/IconDir
/usr/local/bin/wsupdate ~/Desktop/IconDir

/bin/chmod -R 0755 ~/Desktop/IconDir
ls -al ~/Desktop/IconDir/*


# geticon
sips -i file.jpg
geticon -t icns file.jpg


# list files with resource forks
# cf. http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Mac+OS+X/2005/03/30/,
# http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=70224 and
# "can UNIX resolve OS X aliases?", http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=19960

cd ~/Desktop/IconDir
ls -1 | while IFS= read -r i; do if [[ -s ${i}/..namedfork/rsrc ]]; then ls -l "${i}/..namedfork/rsrc"; fi; done
find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec test -s {}/..namedfork/rsrc \; -print
find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec test -s {}/..namedfork/rsrc \; -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 -I '{}' ls -l '{}'/..namedfork/rsrc
find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec test -s {}/..namedfork/rsrc \; -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 -I '{}' sed -n -e 'l' '{}'/..namedfork/rsrc
find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec test -s {}/..namedfork/rsrc \; -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 -I '{}' ruby -n -e 'p $_.to_s' '{}'/..namedfork/rsrc
find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec test -s {}/..namedfork/rsrc \; -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 -I '{}' strings '{}'/..namedfork/rsrc

# delete resource fork
find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec test -s {}/..namedfork/rsrc \; -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' /bin/cp /dev/null '{}/..namedfork/rsrc'

ditto --norsrc file.jpg{,.bak}
ditto --norsrc file.jpg.bak file.jpg

# some additional resource fork tools
man Rez
man DeRez
man RezWack     # create a flattened file from resource and data fork
man UnRezWack
man SplitForks
man FixupResourceForks

/Developer/Tools/Rez --help
/Developer/Tools/DeRez --help
/Developer/Tools/RezWack --help
/Developer/Tools/UnRezWack --help
/Developer/Tools/SplitForks --help
/System/Library/CoreServices/FixupResourceForks --help

ls -1 /Developer/Tools/*
/Developer/Tools/RezDet --help
/Developer/Tools/RezDet -d file; echo $?
/Developer/Tools/RezDet -s file; echo $?

man CpMac | less -N -j -9 -p 'As of Mac OS X 10.4' 
man MvMac | less -N -j -11 -p 'As of Mac OS X 10.4' 

# http://tclresource.sourceforge.net
man tclresource

Further information:

- Mac 101: Change Your Icons
- Mac OS X: Changing the Icon for a File Type
- How Do I Change File Icons And The Default Application On My Mac?
- Set Icon
- Mac Icon FAQ
- Setting an Icon From the CLI
- osxutils Documentation
- Aliases, symbolic links, Path Finder aliases... Help!
- BlueHarvest
- Making Resource-Fork-Aware Backups with rsync on Mac OS X

The command line tool duti (http://duti.sourceforge.net) can be used to change default file-application launching associations as shown by the Finder "Open With" contextual menu. Changing the Finder "Open With" contextual menu means changing the default way we "open" documents on the command line as well.

The "lsregister" command can be used to dump or rebuild the Launch Services database.

export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export IFS=$' \t\n'


# download & install duti, MacVim and TextMate

# duti - set default UTI handlers
# cf. http://duti.sourceforge.net/documentation.php and
# http://developer.apple.com/macosx/uniformtypeidentifiers.html

cd ~/Desktop
curl -L -O http://downloads.sourceforge.net/duti/duti-1.3.0.pkg.tar.gz
tar -xzf duti-1.3.0.pkg.tar.gz
open -a Installer duti-1.3.0.pkg
stat -x /usr/local/bin/duti
duti -h
man duti


# MacVim, http://code.google.com/p/macvim/

cd ~/Desktop
curl -L -O http://macvim.googlecode.com/files/MacVim-7_2-stable-1_2.tbz
tar -xjf MacVim-7_2-stable-1_2.tbz
#open MacVim-7_2-stable-1_2.tbz    # uses BOMArchiveHelper (10.4) or Archive Utility (10.5) respectively
mv -i MacVim-7_2-stable-1_2 MacVim
mv -i ~/Desktop/MacVim /Applications


# TextMate, http://macromates.com

cd ~/Desktop
curl -L -O http://macromates.com/textmate/files/TextMate_1.5.7.dmg
hdiutil mount ~/Desktop/TextMate_1.5.7.dmg
cp -Ri '/Volumes/TextMate 1.5.7/TextMate.app' /Applications
hdiutil unmount '/Volumes/TextMate 1.5.7'
#/usr/bin/sudo /bin/ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate /usr/local/bin/mate


# get the path to the "lsregister" command
locate lsregister | head -n 1
find /System/Library/Frameworks -type f -name lsregister -ls
find /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework -type f -name lsregister -ls

alias lsregister="/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister"

#/usr/bin/sudo /bin/ln -s `locate lsregister | head -n 1` /bin/lsregister   # alternative

# rebuild Launch Services database
#alias rlsdb='lsregister -kill -r -f -all system,local,user'    # Mac OS X 10.5; cf. http://9stmaryrd.com/2008/05/16/158
alias rlsdb='lsregister -kill -r -f -domain local -domain system -domain user'

rlsdb

lsregister -h

lsregister -dump | grep -i duti
lsregister -dump | grep -i MacVim
lsregister -dump | grep -i TextMate
lsregister -dump | grep -i TextEdit
lsregister -dump | grep -i Safari
lsregister -dump | grep -i helpviewer


lsregister -dump | sed -E -n -e 's/^.*uti:[[:space:]]+(.*)$/  \1/p' | sort | uniq | nl
lsregister -dump | grep '[[:space:]]uti:' | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq | nl
lsregister -dump | sed -E -n -e 's/^.*identifier:[[:space:]]+([^[:space:]].*)$/  \1/p' | sort | uniq | nl
lsregister -dump | sed -E -n -e 's/^.*path:[[:space:]]+([^[:space:]].*\.app)$/  \1/p' | sort | uniq | nl


lsregister -dump | sed -E -n -e 's/^.*uti:[[:space:]]+(.*)$/  \1/p' | nl | egrep -i 'duti|MacVim|TextMate|TextEdit|Safari|helpviewer'
lsregister -dump | sed -E -n -e 's/^.*identifier:[[:space:]]+([^[:space:]].*)$/  \1/p' | nl | egrep -i 'duti|MacVim|TextMate|TextEdit|Safari|helpviewer'
lsregister -dump | sed -E -n -e 's/^.*path:[[:space:]]+([^[:space:]].*\.app)$/  \1/p' | nl | egrep -i 'duti|MacVim|TextMate|TextEdit|Safari|helpviewer'


lsregister -dump | sed -E -n -e 's/^.*uti:[[:space:]]+(public\..*)$/  \1/p' | sort | uniq | nl
lsregister -dump | sed -E -n -e 's/^.*uti:[[:space:]]+(.*text.*)$/  \1/p' | sort | uniq | nl


alias utis="lsregister -dump | grep '[[:space:]]uti:' | awk '{ print \$2 }' | sort | uniq"
alias utis="lsregister -dump | sed -E -n -e 's/^.*uti:[[:space:]]+(.*)$/\1/p' | sort | uniq"
utis

utis | grep -i 'public\.' | nl

defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices


# ... or just use wsupdate from http://osxutils.sourceforge.net 
# move & copy the same file
unset -f mc
function mc() {
   if [[ $# -gt 1 ]] || [[ ! -e "$@" ]]; then return 1; fi
   tmpfile="${@}.tmp-${RANDOM}"
   printf "%s\n" "$tmpfile"
   /bin/mv "$@" "${tmpfile}"
   /bin/sleep 0.2
   /bin/cp -p "${tmpfile}" "$@"
   /bin/rm "${tmpfile}"
   return 0
}


unset -f mc
function mc() {
   if [[ $# -gt 1 ]] || [[ ! -e "$@" ]]; then return 1; fi
   tmpfile="/tmp/tmpfile.tmp-${RANDOM}"
   printf "%s\n" "$tmpfile"
   /bin/mv "$@" "${tmpfile}"
   /bin/sleep 0.2
   /bin/cp -Rp "${tmpfile}" "$@"
   /bin/rm -Rf "${tmpfile}"
   return 0
}



echo hello world > ~/Desktop/test.txt
echo hello world > ~/Desktop/test.html


# switch between Safari & Help Viewer as the default launching app for html files
open ~/Desktop/test.html


# cf. http://duti.sourceforge.net/documentation.php

printf "%s\n" 'com.apple.helpviewer   public.html   all' | duti     
#mc ~/Desktop/test.html
wsupdate ~/Desktop/test.html
open ~/Desktop/test.html

printf "%s\n" 'com.apple.Safari   public.html   all' | duti
wsupdate ~/Desktop/test.html
open ~/Desktop/test.html

rlsdb


# switch between TextEdit, MacVim & TextMate as the default launching app for plain text files

open ~/Desktop/test.txt

printf "%s\n" 'com.macromates.textmate   public.plain-text   all' | duti
open ~/Desktop/test.txt
wsupdate ~/Desktop/test.txt

printf "%s\n" 'org.vim.MacVim   public.plain-text   all' | duti
open ~/Desktop/test.txt    # type: ":q" or ":x" to quit test.txt
wsupdate ~/Desktop/test.txt

printf "%s\n" 'com.apple.TextEdit   public.plain-text   all' | duti
open ~/Desktop/test.txt
wsupdate ~/Desktop/test.txt



# cf. http://duti.sourceforge.net/documentation.php

/bin/cat > ~/Desktop/test.duti <<-'EOF'
com.apple.helpviewer   public.html   all
com.macromates.textmate   public.plain-text   all
EOF

# remove white space at line beginning
ed -s ~/Desktop/test.duti <<< $',s/^[[:space:]]*//\nw'

open -e ~/Desktop/test.duti

duti -v ~/Desktop/test.duti

wsupdate ~/Desktop/test.html
open ~/Desktop/test.html

wsupdate ~/Desktop/test.txt
open ~/Desktop/test.txt


#--------------------------------------------------


# GUI alternative to switch the default launching app for a single file
[right-click on a file] + [alt]  ->  "Always Open With"

# GUI alternative to change the default launching app for all files of the same kind
[right-click on a file] -> "Get Info" -> "Open with:" -> [select an app] -> "Change All ..."