With the resurrection of labels in MacOS X 10.3, I hastened to add a little program to the osxutils package. It's called setlabel and allows you to set file labels from the command line with a very simple syntax:
[robg adds: We've covered this useful little package before, and the ability to set labels from the command line could come in handy -- for instance, to tag downloads that you do remotely for easy identification when you get home.]
% setlabel Red myfile.txtI also updated lsmac and it now is capable of listing file labels, along with File/Creator types, Finder flags and such.
[robg adds: We've covered this useful little package before, and the ability to set labels from the command line could come in handy -- for instance, to tag downloads that you do remotely for easy identification when you get home.]
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