> Take my word for it — it’s much easier to tell a computer “do this to every file in this folder” than to tell it “first, find everything with this tag, then p

> Take my word for it — it’s much easier to tell a computer “do this to every file in this folder” than to tell it “first, find everything with this tag, then put those into a string, then do a thing to every file in this string…” The solution here would be a shell (or command) that's able to "do this to every file with this tag", right? In the GUI world, Haiku's Tracker is an example of how such queries might look (https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/queries.html); https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/queries.html); a command-line tool (perhaps with nicer syntax if possible) could readily do the same (and then perhaps do something with the results). Haiku's advantage here is that it uses attributes instead of tags, so it's a bit of a richer experience; also, most Haiku/BeOS software is already aware of attributes, so that also makes it easier to rely on those attributes being actually used.