What commands do we have for finding tagged files/folders using find on the command line?
I have done a search and looked on this site and found nothing.
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Yes - "tag" is one of those words that doesn't yield particularly relevant search results! You should put your GitHub find in an answer - more people will see it.– SeamusCommented Aug 24, 2020 at 0:14
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@anki I already marked this as answered and the answer contains exactly what you liked to.– JohnCommented Jan 26, 2022 at 16:01
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sorry the duplicate comment text is worded like that. It's just bookkeeping. I was merging similar questions like apple.stackexchange.com/questions/435931/…– ankiCommented Jan 26, 2022 at 16:03
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The correct command to perform Spotlight searches on the macOS Terminal command line is mdfind.
mdfind "kMDItemUserTags == '<your_tags_here>'"
The list all the kMD codes:
mdimport -A
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Turns out you can do something as simple as:
mdfind 'tag:Blue'
Although this will only work in English locales
See this excellent answer that happens to discuss tags: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30281424/404459
