Question

What commands do we have for finding tagged files/folders using find on the command line?

I have done a search and looked on this site and found nothing.

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Solution

The correct command to perform Spotlight searches on the macOS Terminal command line is mdfind.

mdfind "kMDItemUserTags == '<your_tags_here>'"

The list all the kMD codes:

mdimport -A
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