Find tags on invisible files

jdberry / tag

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

MIT License

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Find tags on invisible files #29

Closed mgroth0 closed 7 years ago

mgroth0 commented 7 years ago

According to the readme: The --all, --enter, and --recursive options apply to --add, --remove, --set, --match, and --list

I need to --find invisible tags. Is there a workaround for this?

jdberry commented 7 years ago

Can you clarify? What's an invisible tag? Do you mean a tag on an invisible file?

mgroth0 commented 7 years ago

Yes that is what I meant, sorry.

jdberry commented 7 years ago

@matthew-groth... see the answer to #25: it is the same issue. The metadata database doesn't index invisible files, but you can do a match to find them.

mgroth0 commented 7 years ago

I see. Though match is extremely slow compared to find, so it is not practical to use (since I'm searching my whole computer). Is there any way match can be made faster?