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How to refresh OS X dock icon for specific application
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If you only want to update one Application icon, ie, in App.app/Contents/Resources/App.icns just touch the App.app folder. (I've read you need to do the Info.plist as well sometimes, although I've never needed to.)

Close the finder windows and:

touch /Applications/App.app
touch /Applications/App.app/Contents/Info.plist

You can refresh the dock icon cache using the commands above, also do a killall Dock to restart it. Personally I would just drag the application in question, off the dock and re-start / keep in dock, because this is generally a one off thing. As always, script it if possible / and you're doing it a lot.

source: https://gist.github.com/fabiofl/5873100#gistcomment-1320553

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