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Mac OS X change file association per file on the command line
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I need to batch change the application associated with certain files via the command line. I'm not to change the file association for a certain file extension, I'm actually looking to target specific files to open in a different application than the default association for that file type. I do not …
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This information is stored in the file's resource fork (Wikipedia). These resource forks are exposed as extended attributes (Wikipedia): Editing from scratch is probably quite painful -- lots of binary data: But you can treat these resource forks li…
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