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A command line tool to manipulate tags on Mac OS X files, and to query for files with those tags.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2014-09-23 · latest 2025-01-23

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  1. …if I recall) [2] [1] https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organizatio... [2] https://github.com/jdberry/tag
    comment by lemonwaterlime · 2025-01-23 · in TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing virtual tagged filesystem
  2. …filesystem access you'd need, but it would be cool to support adding metadata via tags, a la https://github.com/jdberry/tag/
    comment by blacksmith_tb · 2024-05-15 · in Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos locally with ML
  3. Here is a command line based tag system for Mac osx - https://github.com/jdberry/tag - using xattrs
    comment by LeonB · 2023-05-15 · in Show HN: DMSd - Turn files matching a glob into a DMS
  4. …which will also expose them in Spotlight, sorting in Finder etc. (but not so handy across OSes) 1: https://github.com/jdberry/tag
    comment by blacksmith_tb · 2019-03-07 · in Ask HN: How do you keep your files organized on macOS?
  5. For macos I feel like https://github.com/jdberry/tag is probably a better solution.
    comment by stephenr · 2017-03-23 · in Show HN: Directory Tags for Lazy Programmers
  6. https://github.com/jdberry/tag
    comment by dbm5 · 2016-05-09 · in TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
  7. …://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/93979/are-the-osx-mavericks-tags-visible-from-the-command-line 2 https://github.com/jdberry/tag
    comment by scott_karana · 2014-09-23 · in Show HN: Set OS X files and folders to self-destruct based on tag