What's a good solution for file-tagging in linux?
Problem
I've been looking for a way to tag my files and search/filter them based on those tags. Here are my (updated) requirements : any file readable by the user can be tagged freely a user can search for files matching one or several tags files can be moved around without losing the previously associated tags the system could be backed up easily no dependencies on any desktop environment if any gui is involved, there must be a cli fallback I've been hoping for some basic filesystem & coreutils hackery to handle this, but I haven' thought about this hard enough yet. Meanwhile I'll review beagle and metatracker, which have been mentionned here, and see how they perform. Ok so beagle has huge gnome dependencies, and tracker is okish, but still has some dependencies I don't like... Been doing some more research, and the way to go could very well be extended file attributes. That's a native solution for most recent filesystems, but they aren't very well supported yet (most coreutils destroys the…
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I've just released an alpha of my new program that attempts to provide this functionality. It currently meets some, but not all, of your requirements. It may be of interest to you anyway. It provides a command-line tool for tagging and a virtual file-system for browsing (where tags are represented by directories). http://www.tmsu.org/ any file readable by the user can be tagged freely Yes. a user can search for files matching one or several tags Yes. Either via the command-line tool or by brows…
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