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Mac OS X: How to change the color label of files from the Terminal

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Mar 15, 202619637 views
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Is there a way I can set the color label of a file to some color when in the Terminal? I know that the following command lists some info about what the color currently is, but I can't figure out how to do something about it. Like change it. The reason I would like to know is that I want to recursiv…

Error Output

mdls -name kMDItemFSLabel somefile.ext

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Fix for: Mac OS X: How to change the color label of files from the Terminal

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Based on the responses here and in referenced posts, I made the following function and added it to my ~/.bash_profile file: >

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