NAME¶

taggrepper - search and match tags of media file for regular expressions

SYNOPSIS¶

taggrepper [--tag-label regexp]... [--display-taglabel]... [FILE/DIRECTORY]...

DESCRIPTION¶

Perform a regular expression search on the tags of specified media files.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. All regular expressions are Perl Compatible Regular expressions supported by the PCRE libraries. Note that all matches are ANDed, meaning that for a successful match, matches against all tags must occur.

Support exists for MP3 files, and, if compiled in, for Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files as well.

-t, --title=REGEXP

Match the title tag against REGEXP

-a, --artist=REGEXP

Match the artist tag against REGEXP

-l, --album=REGEXP

Match the album, tag against REGEXP

-y, --year=REGEXP

Match the year tag against REGEXP

-g, --genre=REGEXP

Match the genre tag against REGEXP

-c, --comment=REGEXP

Match the comment tag against REGEXP

--track=REGEXP

Match the track tag against REGEXP

-c, --composer=REGEXP

Match the composer tag against REGEXP

-o, --orig-artist=REGEXP

Match the original artist tag against REGEXP

-c, --copyright=REGEXP

Match the copyright tag against REGEXP

-u, --url=REGEXP

Match the URL tag against REGEXP

-e, --encoded-by=REGEXP

Match the encoded-by tag against REGEXP

--any-tag=REGEXP

Match the encoded-by tag against REGEXP. Using this option makes every one of the above options to be ignored

--display-title

display title tag of matching files

--display-artist

display artist tag of matching files

--display-album

display album tag of matching files

--display-year

display year tag of matching files

--display-genre

display genre tag of matching files

--display-comment

display comment tag of matching files

--display-track

display track tag of matching files

--display-composer

display composer tag of matching files

--display-orig-artist

display orig-artist tag of matching files

--display-copyright

display copyright tag of matching files

--display-url

display url tag of matching files

--display-encoded-by

display encoded-by tag of matching files

-0, --print0,

Use null character as delimiter. This option can be used with -0 option of xargs.

-r, --recursive

Search directories recursively

-v, --version

Display version and exit

-h, --help

Display this help message

All regular expressions are PCRE regular expressions. Refer to the PCRE documentation for details. Report comments and bugs to a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in

COPYING¶

Copyright © Kumar Appaiah

License: BSD License (see COPYING file in the distribution tarball for details)

This program is free software; you can distribute it under the terms of the BSD License. See the file COPYING in the tarball, or /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD on Debian-based systems.

SEE ALSO¶

pcre(3)