Are file comments possible?

[Moltke]

Is it possible using Linux to do the equivalent of what you can do on a Mac with file comments? That is, a separate comment about the file that you add to it later but which is separate from it, yet stays attached to it and can be edited. They are really useful for labeling things or making notes about whatever. This question may not make sense to people who haven't used it on a Mac, in which case I suppose it's probably not possible to do with Linux.

What file type are you talking about? A text file? zip file? .deb file? pdf? .odt?  Depending on the file type there are different tools and techniques to do that. For .zip files there's

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zipnote

You can use it like this:

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zipnote some_file.zip > comments.txt

edit comments.txt file and add your comments, then

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zipnote -w some_file.zip < comments.txt

to write them onto some_file.zip read the man page for more info

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man zipnote

Hope this helps!