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| #/bin/bash | |
| if [ ! -e "$2" ] ; then | |
| echo "Format: `basename $0` url file" | |
| echo "" | |
| echo "Sets the source URL of the file." | |
| echo "" | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| URL="$1" | |
| ENCODED_URL=`echo \(\'$URL\'\) | plutil -convert binary1 -o - - | xxd -p -c 16 -u` | |
| xattr -xw com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms "$ENCODED_URL" "$2" |
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