mac-tag 2018.11.22

MacOS Finder tags. github.com/jdberry/tag python implementation

Install

$ [sudo] pip install mac-tag

Requirements

$ brew install tag

Functions

function	description
mac_tag.add(tags, path)	add tags to path(s)
mac_tag.find(tags, path=None)	return list of all paths with tags, limited to path(s) if present
mac_tag.get(path)	return dict where keys are paths, values are lists of tags. equivalent of tag -l
mac_tag.match(tags, path)	return list of paths with with matching tags
mac_tag.parse_list_output(out)	parse tag -l output and return dict
mac_tag.remove(tags, path)	remove tags from path(s)
mac_tag.update(tags, path)	set path(s) tags. equivalent of `tag -s

Examples

>>> mac_tag.update(["red","blue"],["path1","path2"])
>>> mac_tag.add(["green"],["path1","path2"])

>>> mac_tag.get(["path1"])
{'path1': ['blue', 'red', 'green']}

>>> mac_tag.remove(["red"],["path1","path2"])
>>> mac_tag.remove(["*"],["path1","path2"])

Links

• github.com/jdberry/tag

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