I guess I need something punchier than ‘copy-by-attr’, before I enter the 2008 contest for Smartiest Arse.

I did fleetingly think “how quickly could I knob up an interface to external programs?” to allow arbitrary attributes to be divined; not just MP3 tags, but also attributes such as ‘e-mail recipient’ or ‘already compressed’ or ‘not in portage’.

And then I noticed the pinging of my Pointless-Timesink-O-Meter, and decided to have a beer and do something more useful instead.

Unless, of course, this would turn it into some dynamically-generated, database-backed file system layer that wins smart-arsery awards while solving no existing problems any better than this script does.