TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing virtual tagged filesystem

Re:TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing vir... by lemonwaterlime on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:20PM (#42805890)

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

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Re:TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing vir... by ecmm on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:26PM (#42805942)

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

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Re:TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing vir... by NotPractical on Thursday January 23, 2025 @03:03PM (#42807500)

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.

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Re:TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing vir... by thebeardisred on Thursday January 23, 2025 @02:50PM (#42807395)

I was wondering why this wasn't using xattrs.

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Re:TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing vir... by Imustaskforhelp on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:32PM (#42805988)

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

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