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Created November 17, 2012 12:49
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Reset the creation date a bunch of files (PDFs in this case) based on a spotlight comment (of the form 'yyyymmdd')
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for f in *.pdf ; do new=$(mdls -name kMDItemFinderComment $f -raw) ; touch -t ${new}0000 $f; echo $f ; done
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