Manipulate Mac OS X file icons from Automator or command-line

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Published on 2010-04-22T19:22:00Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 16:38 UTC
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Is there a way to manipulate icons on an Mac OS X file from either Automator or the terminal?

In my case, I want to remove custom icons (that is, the same as doing 'Get Info' and Edit->Cut on the icon) from a large number of files.

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