On: TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and view...

[lemonwaterlime]

See also:

- "Designing better file organization around tags not hierarchies" [1]

- `tag` - a macOS version of `tmsu` that uses the system tags (xattr-based if I recall) [2]

[1] https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organizatio...

[2] https://github.com/jdberry/tag

[ecmm → lemonwaterlime]

I also inadvertently implemented something similar as a zsh script [1] and as a simple rust CLI [2] a couple years ago.

[1] https://github.com/xdoardo/zshelf

[2] https://github.com/xdoardo/shelf

[NotPractical → lemonwaterlime]

xattrs are great, and would the obvious solution for tags/metadata on Linux too, if the syscall API didn't delete them at every opportunity; programs must be explicitly told not to do that.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Extended_attributes

That being said, it'd be cool to see a port of that CLI to Linux using user.xdg.tags. You can avoid deleting them if you're careful.

[thebeardisred → lemonwaterlime]

I was wondering why this wasn't using xattrs.

[Imustaskforhelp → lemonwaterlime]

yea when I was looking for linux version I was finding tag again and again lol