wutag 🔱🏷️

CLI tool for tagging and organizing files by tags.

Install

If you use arch Linux and have AUR repositories set up you can use your favourite AUR manager to download wutag. For example with paru:

• paru -S wutag
• or latest master branch with paru -S wutag-git

If you're on another Linux distribution or MacOS you can download one of the prebuilt binaries from here.

To build manually you'll need latest rust and cargo. Build with:

• cargo build --release --bins

Daemon

Wutag works in a client-server architecture with a daemon running in a background. If you install wutag from package like RPM or DEB it should automatically install the systemd service for you.

Linux

If wutag was built manually, install the example service to /etc/systemd/user/

To enable the daemon run:

    $ systemctl --user daemon-reload
    $ systemctl --user enable --now wutagd.service

Or start the daemon manually with:

    $ /usr/bin/wutagd

Mac OS

To install wutag on MacOS download the static build of latest version from releases page and copy the binaries to /usr/local/bin. Last step is to copy the service definition com.wutag.wutagd.plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents and load it:

    $ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.wutag.wutagd.plist
    $ launchctl start com.wutag.wutagd

Usage

By default each tag will be assigned with a random color from 8 base colors (either bright or normal so 16 colors in total). You can later edit each tag by using edit subcommand like this:

• wutag edit school --color 0x1f1f1f
• or wutag edit code --color '#ff00aa'
• or wutag edit work --color FF0000
• The colors are case insensitive

To set a tag on multiple files use the set subcommand:

• wutag set src/lib.rs src/main.rs --tags code
  The set subcommand can also be used with a pattern like this:
• wutag set -g '**' -t rust code

To get the tags of some entries use:

• wutag get src/lib.rs src/main.rs

The rm subcommand removes specified tags from the list of files. It behaves similarly to the set subcommand:

• wutag rm src/lib.rs src/main.rs -t code
• wutag rm -g '**' -t rust code

There is also clear that clears all tags from the specified files like so:

• wutag clear files Cargo.toml
• wutag clear files -g '**'
  Or clears the tags entirelly untagging all entries:
• wutag clear tags rust code

When using glob processing, default recursion depth is set to 2. To increase it use --max-depth or -m global parameter. For example:

• wutag -m 5 set -g '**' -t trash

After tagging your files with set like:

• wutag set -g '**/*.jpg' -t photos
• wutag set -g '**/DCIM_12*' -t doge
  you can easily get the list of files with specified tags by doing wutag search photos doge.

The output of the search subcommand can easily be piped to other programs:

• wutag search --any cat doge | xargs rm -rf # please don't do this :(.

When --any flag is provided as in the example wutag will match files containing any of the provided tags rather than all of them.

If you are into emojis then surely you can use emojis to tag files 🙂 wutag set -g '*.doc' -t 📋

Configuration

wutag lets you configure base colors used when creating tags or modify other settings globally. To do this create a file wutag.yml in your config directory (on unix XDG_CONFIG_DIR) like ~/.config/wutag.yml.

Example configuration:

---
max_depth: 100
pretty_output: true
colors:
- '0xabba0f'
- '#121212'
- '0x111111'

Tab completion

To get tab completion use wutag print-completions <shell> > /path/to/completions/dir/... to enable it in your favourite shell.

Available shells are:

• bash
• elvish
• fish
• powershell
• zsh

To enable completions on the fly use:

• . <(wutag print-completions bash)

License

MIT