EARLY VERSION

c-file-tagger

8mb.video-4fY-BLFhXwjh.mp4

• *The command wp is just a bash script that sets my background from a list of files.
• *The video is from an older date and the arguments have changed slighly

Install

git clone https://github.com/rphii/c-file-tagger
cd c-file-tagger/src
make install

Usage

List all tags:

cft --input tags.cft --list-tags
cft -il tags.cft

# list only tags of filename-A & filename-B
cft --input tags.cft --list-tags filename-A filename-B

List all files:

cft --input tags.cft --list-files
cft -iL tags.cft

# list only files filename-A & filename-B
cft --input tags.cft --list-files filename-A filename-B

List all tags with files associated

cft --input tags.cft --list-tags --list-files
cft -ilL tags.cft

# to disable decoration
cft --input tags.cft --list-tags --list-files --decoration no
cft -ilLd tags.cft no

List all files with tags associated

cft --list-files --list-tags
cft -Ll

# to disable decoration
cft --input tags.cft --list-files --list-tags --decoration no
cft -iLld tags.cft no     # should in theory give the same output as your file(s) (combined)

Tags have to be matched exactly (yes, case sensitive). (...reminder that this is an early version, but I want the program to be quite flexible later on, so I'm thinking of adding an option, or something...)

List files associated with either sky or cloud:

cft --input tags.cft --any sky,cloud
cft -i tags.cft -O sky,cloud

List files associated with sky and cloud:

cft --input tags.cft --and sky,cloud
cft -i tags.cft -A sky,cloud

List files associated with neither sky nor cloud:

cft --input tags.cft --not sky,cloud
cft -i tags.cft -N sky,cloud

If one were to combine --any --and and --not, the current order is fixed and as written in the current sentence. Later on I want to allow more complex expressions. One can for example search for any file with tags sky or cloud, of which include girl and blue, but is not nfsw nor sketchy:

cft --input tags.cft --any sky,cloud --and girl,blue --not nsfw,sketchy

Searching files for substrings is also possible with the help of other CLI tools:

cft --input tags.cft --any $(cft --list-tags --decorate no | grep SUBSTRING-TO-SEARCH | tr '\n' ',')
cft -i tags.cft -O $(cft -ld no | grep FUZZY-SEARCH | tr '\n' ',')

Almost none of the other options work and are more of a sketched out plan or route I might take. All the other options can be listed with:

cft --help

Adding Tags

By default no input nor output file is provided. Tag files have to end in .cft.

The file format is similar to that of a .csv. The first entry is a file name (or anything you want, basically, doesn't have to be a file) and the rest are all tags associated with said file (delimiter is a comma).

It is possible to specify the use of one output file:

cft --output some/output/file.cft
cft -o some/output/file.cft

One can also specify multiple additional input files:

cft --input path/file-A.cft --input path/file-B.cft
cft -ii path/file-A.cft path/file-B.cft
cft --input ~/some/directory --recursive      # searches all files ending in *.cft recursively
cft -ir ~/some/directory

It is also possible to merge tag files. The sources are --input and it will merge into --output.

cft --merge -ii path/file-A.cft path/file-B.cft     # merge into default file
cft --merge -oii path/output.cft path/file-A.cft path/file-B.cft

If one has filenames in their tags file, one can let cft expand the paths using --expand.

cft --input tags.cft --expand --list-files
cft -ieL tags.cft

# this will expand based on the following rules
filename    -> prepend directory of tags file, starting from root
~/filename  -> replace ~ with home directory
../filename -> prepend directory of tags file, starting from root. any '..' will also get replaced
/filename   -> since already at root, do nothing (will still treat '..')

About Tags

Tags are your normal, run-off-the-mill strings, with one small exception: They support a basic folder structure. You can simply make one with a :. So, one can for example, instead of tagging files with a generous:

dragon-ball-wallpaper,anime
bleach-wallpaper,anime
some-anime-wallpaper,anime

rather use this approach:

dragon-ball-wallpaper,anime:dragon-ball
bleach-wallpaper,anime:bleach
some-anime-wallpaper,anime

The folder structuring with : allows for more than a single level, too.

When searching for files with anime, one will find all three files regardless of folder or not. To only find the Bleach-Wallpaper, you would do cft --any anime:bleach, which will respect your choice of tag and only list those tagged accordingly.

To add tags with the cli to one output file, one can do:

cft -o path/output.cft string-to-tag --tag list,of,tags
cft -o path/output.cft string-to-tag -t list,of,tags

TODO so I won't forget

• undo? hmm
• -lL filename = wrong count of files in description!
• don't add -t tag: (empty subfolder) as tag
• clean up the code since it's messy -> especially since I switched from array of tags to lookup tables ...