ID

e04f556

date

2025-03-03 10:21:45+00:00

author

Alex Chan <alex@alexwlchan.net>

parent

0327b5e

message

Add a script for setting Finder comments

changed files

2 files, 36 additions, 1 deletion

• macos/README.md
• macos/set_finder_comment

Changed files

macos/README.md (6940) → macos/README.md (7379)

diff --git a/macos/README.md b/macos/README.md
index e620ade..1eece27 100644
--- a/macos/README.md
+++ b/macos/README.md
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ scripts = [
         "description": "set the accent colour, as configured in the Appearance settings",
     },
     {
+        "usage": "set_finder_comment PATH COMMENT",
+        "description": "Set the Finder comment of a file, which will be indexed by Spotlight for searching"
+    },
+    {
         "usage": "sterilise [PATH]",
         "description": "alias for <code>xattr -d com.apple.quarantine</code>"
     },
@@ -209,6 +213,15 @@ cog_helpers.create_description_table(folder_name=folder_name, scripts=scripts)
   </dd>
 
   <dt>
+    <a href="https://github.com/alexwlchan/scripts/blob/main/macos/set_finder_comment">
+      <code>set_finder_comment PATH COMMENT</code>
+    </a>
+  </dt>
+  <dd>
+    Set the Finder comment of a file, which will be indexed by Spotlight for searching
+  </dd>
+
+  <dt>
     <a href="https://github.com/alexwlchan/scripts/blob/main/macos/sterilise">
       <code>sterilise [PATH]</code>
     </a>
@@ -238,4 +251,4 @@ cog_helpers.create_description_table(folder_name=folder_name, scripts=scripts)
     </p>
   </dd>
 </dl>
-<!-- [[[end]]] (checksum: dd3558b095357994d6bd03ab9bdc8481) -->
+<!-- [[[end]]] (checksum: d3812e637239eb78235f9823c0af4b7c) -->

macos/set_finder_comment (0) → macos/set_finder_comment (603)

diff --git a/macos/set_finder_comment b/macos/set_finder_comment
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2da5d61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/macos/set_finder_comment
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+
+if (( $# != 2 ))
+then
+  echo "Usage: $0 PATH COMMENT" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# $ set_finder_comment src/_posts/2012/2012-12-30-hypercritical.md Hypercritical
+# 2025-02-25 23:16:10.894 osascript[60436:891948] CFURLGetFSRef was passed a URL which has no scheme (the URL will not work with other CFURL routines)
+FILE_PATH="$(realpath "$1")"
+COMMENT="$2"
+
+osascript -e '
+  on run argv
+    set filepath to (POSIX file (item 1 of argv) as alias)
+    tell application "Finder" to set the comment of filepath to (item 2 of argv)
+  end run
+' "$FILE_PATH" "$COMMENT"