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Copies the location information on macOS from one file to another.
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copyLocationFromFile.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
if [ $# != 2 ]; then
echo `basename $0`" <src file> <dst file>"
exit
fi
xattr -w "com.apple.metadata:kMDItemLatitude" $(mdls -name kMDItemLatitude "$1" | awk '{print $3}' | sed s/\"//g) "$2"
xattr -w "com.apple.metadata:kMDItemLongitude" $(mdls -name kMDItemLongitude "$1" | awk '{print $3}' | sed s/\"//g) "$2"
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