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)