10.3: Create icon previews and more in the Terminal

Nov 24, '03 10:20:00AM

Contributed by: fxt

I've wanted to generate icon previews for image files from the command line for a long time, even though there are many fine applications avaliable for this task (pic2icon, Photoshop, Graphic Converter, IconDropper, and PathFinder to name but a few). However, Panther includes the "scriptable image processing system," which makes this task trivial:

% sips --addIcon imagefile(s)
Use sips -h and sips -H for help, and see Apple's page on the new Image Events application

[robg adds: This looks to be a very powerful tool, hidden away in the recesses of 10.3. I can see some nice uses for this with my digital camera pictures. Definitely read the -h page for a brief look at everything it can do, and there's a bunch more info on the Apple page.]

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