Batch replacing of icons

[Asmodean]

Let's say I have a drawer which contains a number (50) of subdrawers. Let's now say that I found a fancy drawer icon (.info) somewhere that I only want to use for the 50 subdrawers. I do not want this new fancy drawer to become the default drawer.

If I only wanted to replace one of the drawers I could simply copy the fancy drawer icon into the name of the drawer I wanted to replace.

But if I want to replace all 50 of these subdrawers. Is there a way to automate this?

I'm using AmigaOS 3.2.2.1 in this scenario

[daxb]

You can use a ADOS or ARexx script to automate this.

[Asmodean]

So there is no known tool/script already released on aminet for this specific purpose... too bad.

I'm not so familiar with Arexx. Could you explain how you would automate this using AmigaDos scripting?

[daxb]

I don't know if there is something on aminet that fits your needs. You may search a bit.

I would use rexxtricks.library function GETDIR() to get a list of all drawers. Then got through the list (DO loop) and replace (copyicon cli tool) all drawers with the one you want.

[EctoOne]

Isn't there a tool in the NewIcons package for drawers specifically!?
Don't know if it only works for NewIcons and/or if you can specify the location of the drawers you want.

Or you could use LIST to create a script that uses something like CopyIcon44 to copy the source to multiple targets. But that would probably only really work if there are just drawer icons in your target location. Although you could manually edit the script afterwards to remove non drawer icons.

I mean since you're using 3.2 you could even select all drawers you want to change and drag them into the CopyIcon window. It really depends on how spread out your icons are.