NAME
ebook-meta - ebook-meta
ebook-meta ebook_file [options]
Read/Write metadata from/to e-book files.
Supported formats for reading metadata: azw, azw1, azw3, azw4, cb7, cbc, cbr, cbz, chm, docx, epub, fb2, fbz, html, htmlz, imp, kepub, lit, lrf, lrx, mobi, odt, oebzip, opf, pdb, pdf, pml, pmlz, pobi, prc, rar, rb, rtf, snb, tpz, txt, txtz, updb, zip
Supported formats for writing metadata: azw, azw1, azw3, azw4, docx, epub, fb2, fbz, htmlz, kepub, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, tpz, txtz
Different file types support different kinds of metadata. If you try to set some metadata on a file type that does not support it, the metadata will be silently ignored.
Whenever you pass arguments to ebook-meta that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. For example: "/some path/with spaces"
[OPTIONS]
- --author-sort
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String to be used when sorting by author. If unspecified, and the author(s) are specified, it will be auto-generated from the author(s).
- --authors, -a
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Set the authors. Multiple authors should be separated by the & character. Author names should be in the order Firstname Lastname.
- --book-producer, -k
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Set the book producer.
- --category
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Set the book category.
- --comments, -c
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Set the e-book description.
- --cover
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Set the cover to the specified file.
- --date, -d
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Set the published date.
- --disallow-rendered-cover
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For formats like EPUB that use a "default cover" of the first page rendered, disallow such default covers
- --from-opf
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Read metadata from the specified OPF file and use it to set metadata in the e-book. Metadata specified on the command line will override metadata read from the OPF file
- --get-cover
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Get the cover from the e-book and save it at as the specified file.
- --help, -h
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show this help message and exit
- --identifier
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Set the identifiers for the book, can be specified multiple times. For example: --identifier uri:https://acme.com --identifier isbn:12345 To remove an identifier, specify no value, --identifier isbn: Note that for EPUB files, an identifier marked as the package identifier cannot be removed.
- --index, -i
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Set the index of the book in this series.
- --isbn
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Set the ISBN of the book.
- --language, -l
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Set the language.
- --lrf-bookid
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Set the BookID in LRF files
- --publisher, -p
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Set the e-book publisher.
- --rating, -r
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Set the rating. Should be a number between 1 and 5.
- --series, -s
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Set the series this e-book belongs to.
- --tags
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Set the tags for the book. Should be a comma separated list.
- --title, -t
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Set the title.
- --title-sort
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The version of the title to be used for sorting. If unspecified, and the title is specified, it will be auto-generated from the title.
- --to-opf
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Specify the name of an OPF file. The metadata will be written to the OPF file.
- --version
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show program's version number and exit
Author
Kovid Goyal
Copyright
Kovid Goyal