Show/hide extension of a file through OS X command line
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I'm looking for a way, via terminal, to change whether or not a specific file's extension is shown in the Finder, something along the lines of: Without having to open Get Info and change the checkbox, as it's massively tedious. I plan on incorporating it into a script I'm calling via a shortcut usi…
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$ hideextension ~/music/somesong.mp3
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Fix for: Show/hide extension of a file through OS X command line
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The only real way to change this via GUI is to click Hide extension in the Finder Info window. Checking this changes the extended attribute, which you normally can't edit – at least not easily. We can however use a tool to do it for us. For the belo…
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