files can be moved around without losing the previously associated tags - The directories they inhabit can be freely moved about, but if the file is moved from the directory, we are in trouble.a user can search for files matching one or several tags - Likewise.any file readable by the user can be tagged freely - Yes, should be no problem.It should also be possible to do more sophisticated, content-examining tests based on this scheme with a similar script wrapped around find. Some of the KDE chaps talked about this sort of scheme for metadata, although I don't recall the details. (If you're interested, I could write one). I leave the details of the locate-tag script to you it should be a two- or three-liner, using only the locate command and shell hackery.

Each file in the directory $FILE with link $TAG (which should not contain the char _) has a link $TAG_$FILE ->.Each directory that contains at least one tagged file needs a standard subdirectory, say.If you want it to work anywhere in unix, rather that just your home directory, and you only want to do pathname-based searches, the following scheme is workable, with a little bit of shell hackery, and using the standard locatedb: It's not clear what kind of searching you want. Would like to hear some thoughts on using them while I try my hand at some hacks myself, eventhough this might warrant a new question. That's a native solution for most recent filesystems, but they aren't very well supported yet (most coreutils destroys them by default, cp for example needs the -a flag to preserve them). Ok so beagle has huge gnome dependencies, and tracker is okish, but still has some dependencies I don't like.īeen doing some more research, and the way to go could very well be extended file attributes. Meanwhile I'll review beagle and metatracker, which have been mentionned here, and see how they perform. I've been hoping for some basic filesystem & coreutils hackery to handle this, but I haven' thought about this hard enough yet.

if any gui is involved, there must be a cli fallback.

no dependencies on any desktop environment.

files can be moved around without losing the previously associated tags.

a user can search for files matching one or several tags.

any file readable by the user can be tagged freely.

I've been looking for a way to tag my files and search/filter them based on those tags.

Install tagspaces on pc