# jdberry/tag

A command line tool to manipulate tags on Mac OS X files, and to query for files with those tags.

Repository: https://github.com/jdberry/tag
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tag
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-07-29T05:38:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4694, "days_push": 765, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1563, forks 110 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:04.083012+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: cli, file-system, search-engine, developer-tools
- domain: files, operating-systems, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: file-tags, finder-tags, metadata-search, objective-c, command-line, macos

## Member repositories
- jdberry/tag (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:04.083012+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:00:16.069783+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jdberry/tag (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:04.083012+00:00, sha e8b1e194938f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.