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Clear Mac OS X's icon cache.
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;
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@jasonm23 @andreiborisov i'm interested in changing icons via cli, doing some more debugging, found these articles:

The first one clarifies the 0 bytes size of Icon\r: the file is actually stored in the resource fork

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jbrodriguez commented May 7, 2022

and finally this tool looks promising (although i haven't tested it myself) https://github.com/mklement0/fileicon

EDIT: i tried the tool and it works for me on Monterrey, although i still need to rebuild the cache and restart dock:

rm /var/folders/*/*/*/com.apple.dock.iconcache
killall Dock

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