How can I change a folder's icon by using a script?

Question

I have in my Profile folder "Home" some specials folders as "Wallpapers", "TXT", etc. and I use, for those personalized icons. The problem is that, any time I reinstall Ubuntu, I have to assign again the icon to that particular folder, and with the years and the installs, the number of folders are increasing.

So I need a automatic way to assign those custom icons to those special folders. Is there a way to do that?

I hope somebody can help me.

Answer 1

Something similar was discussed here. I guess, according to the thread, you could use gvfs-set-attribute to change the icons and using a for loop you could make your script shorter by iterating over your standard folder names and icon locations.