03-19-2005
I tried all 3, and all 3 worked perfectly. The last 2 options are a whole lot easier for me to understand, even though I did read up on regular expressions, and was able to follow some of the first option.
Thanks for your help
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taggrepper
TAGGREPPER(1) User Commands TAGGREPPER(1)
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 (C) 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)
taggrepper 0.01 July 2009 TAGGREPPER(1)