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Program to set the Date Added attribute of a file to it's modified date on macOS
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/* | |
* This code was written by Stefan Schmidt from this Stack Exchange post: | |
* https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/40941/how-to-set-date-added-metadata-in-mac-os-x-10-7-lion#answer-457371 | |
* | |
* Tested by me on macOS Bug Sur 11.7.10 | |
* | |
* To compile: | |
* | |
* gcc -o date_add_to_mod date_add_to_mod.c | |
* | |
* Call the program from the current directory with a list of files: | |
* | |
* ./date_add_to_mod file1 file2 file3 | |
*/ | |
#include <stdlib.h> | |
#include <string.h> | |
#include <sys/attr.h> | |
#include <unistd.h> | |
#include <stdio.h> | |
/* | |
* For a list of files set "Date Added" in | |
* macOS Finder to match "Date Modified" | |
*/ | |
/* | |
* Get kMDItemDateAdded of path. | |
* | |
* Returns: | |
* • 0 on success | |
* • 1 if a system call failed: check errno | |
* • 2 if something else went wrong | |
*/ | |
int get_date_modified(const char* path, struct timespec * out) { | |
attrgroup_t request_attrs = ATTR_CMN_RETURNED_ATTRS | ATTR_CMN_MODTIME; | |
struct attrlist request; | |
memset(&request, 0, sizeof(request)); | |
request.bitmapcount = ATTR_BIT_MAP_COUNT; | |
request.commonattr = request_attrs; | |
typedef struct { | |
u_int32_t length; | |
attribute_set_t returned; | |
struct timespec modified; | |
} __attribute__((aligned(4), packed)) response_buf_t; | |
response_buf_t response; | |
int err = getattrlist(path, &request, &response, sizeof(response), 0); | |
if (err != 0) { | |
return 1; | |
} | |
if (response.length != sizeof(response)) { | |
// Need a different-sized buffer; but provided one of exactly required | |
// size?! | |
return 2; | |
} | |
if (response.returned.commonattr != request_attrs) { | |
// Didn’t get back all requested common attributes | |
return 2; | |
} | |
out->tv_sec = response.modified.tv_sec; | |
out->tv_nsec = response.modified.tv_nsec; | |
return 0; | |
} | |
/* | |
* Set kMDItemDateAdded of path. | |
* | |
* Returns: | |
* • 0 on success | |
* • 1 if a system call failed: check errno | |
*/ | |
int set_date_added(const char* path, struct timespec in) { | |
attrgroup_t request_attrs = ATTR_CMN_ADDEDTIME; | |
struct attrlist request; | |
memset(&request, 0, sizeof(request)); | |
request.bitmapcount = ATTR_BIT_MAP_COUNT; | |
request.commonattr = request_attrs; | |
typedef struct { | |
struct timespec added; | |
} __attribute__((aligned(4), packed)) request_buf_t; | |
request_buf_t request_buf; | |
request_buf.added.tv_sec = in.tv_sec; | |
request_buf.added.tv_nsec = in.tv_nsec; | |
int err = setattrlist(path, &request, &request_buf, sizeof(request_buf), 0); | |
if (err != 0) { | |
return 1; | |
} | |
return 0; | |
} | |
/* | |
* Set kMDItemDateAdded of path to kMDItemFSContentChangeDate | |
* | |
* Returns: | |
* • 0 on success | |
* • 1 if a path doesn't exist | |
* • 2 if a function call failed | |
*/ | |
int date_added_to_modifed(char* path) { | |
int err; | |
if(access(path, F_OK) != 0) { | |
printf("error: %s doesn't exist\n", path); | |
return 1; | |
} | |
struct timespec out; | |
err = get_date_modified(path, &out); | |
if (err != 0) { | |
return 2; | |
} | |
struct timespec in; | |
in.tv_sec = out.tv_sec; | |
in.tv_nsec = out.tv_nsec; | |
err = set_date_added(path, in); | |
if (err != 0) { | |
return 2; | |
} | |
return 0; | |
} | |
/* | |
* Modify paths given as command line arguments | |
* | |
* Returns: | |
* • 0 on success | |
* • 1 if a path doesn't exist | |
* • 2 if something else went wrong | |
*/ | |
int main(int argc, char **argv) { | |
if (argc >= 2) { | |
for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i) { | |
char *path = argv[i]; | |
int err = date_added_to_modifed(path); | |
if (err == 0) { | |
printf("%s\n", path); | |
} | |
else if (err == 2) { | |
printf("an unknown error occured\n"); | |
return 2; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
else { | |
printf("usage: date_add_to_mod file1 file2 ...\n"); | |
} | |
return EXIT_SUCCESS; | |
} |
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