Markr

A library and script for associating marks/labels/key-values with a given file. Markr lets you perform operations on the marks for files.

Associating metadata with files/resources can be used to organize, search and perform other operations on files. Markr provides a library and script to do this using external attributes.

Getting Started

Install the python3 package

pip3 install markr

Test setting and getting marks.

$ touch me.txt
$ markr set me.txt foo bar
$ markr set me.txt alice bob
$ markr get me.txt
foo : bar
alice : bob

Creating a mark directory

$ mkdir -p test/dir
$ touch test/dir/me.txt
$ markr set me.txt foo bar
$ markr set me.txt alice bob
$ markr get me.txt
alice : bob
foo : bar
$ markr dir test
$ tree marks
marks/
├── alice
│   └── me.txt -> ../../test/dir/me.txt
└── foo
    └── me.txt -> ../../test/dir/me.txt

2 directories, 2 files

Advanced Features

The dir command scans all files underneath a given directory for marks, and creates a new directory structure where each subdirectory is a given label. This allows you to view what files have the same marks

Licensing

MIT License.