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TMSU lets you tags your files and then access them through a nifty virtual filesystem from any other application.
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Import tags from existing path hierarchy #221

Open SeanPedersen opened 3 years ago

SeanPedersen commented 3 years ago

The idea is to leverage existing directory hierarchies to automatically import tags for files contained in them.

I have an existing collection of art images, e.g. Wallpapers/art/escher, Wallpapers/art/munch, etc. and I want to import them into my tag collection as tag groups like so: $ cd Wallpapers $ tmsu tag import .

This should result in subdirs of art/ being grouped as art and files of escher/ and munch/ being tagged with their respective parent dir names. I hope it is clear what I mean, if not I am available for further discussion. This issue is related to #213 where the feature tag groups I refer here is discussed.

danbreu commented 3 years ago

I had the same problem and solved it using find. It's a bit hacky but works:

$ find . -type f -exec sh -c 'tmsu tag "{}" $(dirname {} | tr -d "." | tr "/" " ")' \;

When ran in Wallpapers this tags all files in art/escher with "art" and "escher".

For "directory" grouping:

$ find . -mindepth 1 -type d -exec sh -c 'tmsu imply $(echo "{}" | tr -d "." | tr "/" "\n" | tac | tr "\n" " ")' \;

This creates an implication from every directory name to every parent directory name, until (and excluding) the current working directory. (So art/escher/tesselations/ would create tesselations => art; tesselations => escher; escher => art)

SeanPedersen commented 3 years ago

Cool that you managed to make it work using bash. In the mean time I have created my own tagging tool (https://github.com/SeanPedersen/HyperTag) which comes native with the import function.