Auto set thumbnail icons to .mov.

setMovIcon.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8371790/how-to-set-icon-on-file-or-directory-using-cli-on-os-x
# Usage 
# cd path/to/moviesAndImagesDir/
# thisFileName.sh ./ [jpg|png]

dirPath=$1
thumbExt=$2
IFS=$'\n'

for file in ${dirPath}*.mov
do
  movName=${file##*/}
  movName=${movName%.*}

  iconExt="."${thumbExt}
  iconSource=$movName$iconExt

  movExt=".mov"
  movNameExt=$movName$movExt
  # echo ${movName}
  # echo ${iconSource}

  icon=/tmp/`basename $iconSource`
  rsrc=/tmp/${movName}.rsrc

  # Create icon from the iconSource
  cp $iconSource $icon

  # Add icon to image file, meaning use itself as the icon
  sips -i $icon

  # Take that icon and put it into a rsrc file
  DeRez -only icns $icon > $rsrc

  # Apply the rsrc file to
  SetFile -a C $movNameExt
  if [ -f $movNameExt ]; then
      # Destination is a file
      Rez -append $rsrc -o $movNameExt
  elif [ -d $movNameExt ]; then
      # Destination is a directory
      # Create the magical Icon\r file
      touch $movNameExt/$'Icon\r'
      Rez -append $rsrc -o $movNameExt/Icon?
      SetFile -a V $movNameExt/Icon?
  fi

done
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# #osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to quit'
# #osascript -e 'delay 2'
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