KiCad change fields visibility utility

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I’ve back imported footprints for a .cmp file and I’ve misunderstood  kicad’s question about the imported footprints visibility, so all went visible.

And surprise, you can not edit visibility for all fields at once.

So  little utility was born – fixvis.

Usage is pretty simple:
./fixvis file.sch fieldid newval where fieldid is: 0 - Reference 1 - Value 2 - Footprint 3 - Datasheet 4+ - custom newval: 0000 = visible, 0001 = hidden

Example hide all footprints:

./fixvis name.sch 2 0001 > name-nofp.sch

It would be good to have a global toggle option.

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