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jdberry/tag

A command line tool to manipulate tags on Mac OS X files, and to query for files with those tags. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/jdberry/tag · Objective-C · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4694
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 765
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1563 stars · 110 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

tag is a command line tool for manipulating macOS Finder tags on files and querying for files by their tags. It leverages the file system's built-in metadata search to rapidly find all files tagged with a given set of tags.

Use cases

  • add finder tags to files from the terminal
  • find all files tagged with a specific tag
  • remove or replace tags on files via script
  • list tags on a file
  • batch-tag files recursively in directories
  • pipe tagged file lists to xargs

When to choose

  • you want to script or automate macOS file tagging
  • you need fast tag-based file search from the command line
  • you prefer Finder tags over folder-based organization

When to avoid

  • you are not on macOS 10.9 or later
  • you need a GUI for tag management
  • you need cross-platform file tagging

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

cli file-system search-engine developer-tools files operating-systems developer-tools cli file-tags finder-tags metadata-search objective-c command-line macos

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
jdberry/tagmain23

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="jdberry/tag")

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