NB: No longer maintained by me. Fork and make it better.
osxiconutils is a suite of Mac command line utilities to get or set Mac OS X file icons, and convert to and from Apple's icns icon file format. Created a long time ago.
The suite contains the following tools:
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seticon - set the custom icon of a Mac OS X file or folder [man page]
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geticon - retrieve the icon of a given Mac OS X file or folder as an
icnsfile [man page] -
image2icns - convert an image file to a Mac OS X
icnsfile [man page] -
icns2image - convert a Mac OS X
icnsfile to a standard image file (JPEG, PNG etc.) [man page]
- Download osxutils binaries (~100 KB, Intel 64-bit, 10.6 or later)
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