LENTS (Local Extendable Nested Tagging System)

Date: 2025 Apr 14

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PRLENTS (PRototype Rust LENTS) is a version of LENTS written in the style of Rust CLI tools like ripgrep, zoxide, and fd.

Commands

Usage: lents <command> <operator> <arguments>

ENTS commands use inverse function mapping - one to many, not many to one. This is chosen so the first argument of one type can have many arguments (that are of a different type than the first and are all of a similar type) after it

`process`

Takes an ENTS file and processes it to a datafile.

Usage: lents process [tags.ents]
Notes: no additional operators or arguments
Alias: parse

`ttf`

Usage: lents ttf <add|remove> <arguments>*

Description: Manages relationships between one tag and many files

Alias: tagtofiles

add
- Usage: lents ttf add <tag> <files>*
- Description: creates links from one tag to $\ge$ 1 files
- Alias: assign
remove
- Usage: lents ttf remove <tag> <files>*
- Description: removes a link one from one tag to $\ge$ 1 files
- Alias: rm

`ftt`

Usage: lents ftt <add|remove> <arguments>*

Description: Manages relationships between one file and many tags

Alias: filetotags

add
- Usage: lents ftt add <file> <tags>*
- Description: creates links from one file to $\ge$ 1 tags
- Alias: assign
remove
- Usage: lents ftt remove <file> <tags>*
- Description: removes links from one file to $\ge$ 1 tags
- Alias: rm

`filter`

Usage: lents filter [-flags] <tags>*

Description: Returns files associated with tags. The main command of LENTS, where the nesting comes into play.

Alias: fil

`inspect`

Usage: lents inspect <files>*

Description: Shows all the tags associated with a file.

Alias: insp

Roadmap

A single command alias gents (for Global ENTS) can be configured to run as a shorthand for a path, typically root / or home directory ~. When looking for tags.bson in another directory, it is specified as the argument for the flag -d.

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Diego Cabello