---
name: "tracker3-info"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tracker-extract"
version: "3.4.3-1"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tracker3-info"
---

# tracker3-info(1)

Retrieve all information available for a certain file.

## NAME

tracker3-info - Retrieve all information available for a certain file.

## SYNOPSIS

**tracker3 info** \[*options*...\] \<*file1*\> \[\[*file2*\] ...\]

## DESCRIPTION

**tracker3 info** asks for all the known metadata available for the given *file*.

Multiple *file* arguments can be provided to retrieve information about multiple files.

The *file* argument can be either a local path or a URI. It also does not have to be an absolute path.

## OPTIONS

- **-f, --full-namespaces**

  By default, all keys and values reported about any given *file* are returned in shortened form, for example, *nie:title* is shown instead of *http://tracker.api.gnome.org/ontology/v3/nie#title*. This makes things much easier to see generally and the output is less cluttered. This option reverses that so FULL namespaces are shown instead.

- **-c, --plain-text-content**

  If the resource being displayed has nie:PlainTextContent (i.e. information about the content of the resource, which could be the contents of a file on the disk), then this option displays that in the output.

- **-i, --resource-is-iri**

  In most cases, the *file* argument supplied points to a URL or PATH which is queried for according to the resource associated with it by *nie:url*. However, in cases where the *file* specified turns out to be the actual URN itself, this argument is required to tell "tracker3 info" not to do the extra step of looking up the URN related by *nie:url*.

For example, consider that you store URNs by the actual URL itself and use the unique nie:url in another resource (which is quite reasonable when using containers and multi-resource conditions), you would need this argument to tell "tracker3 info" that the *file* supplied is actually a URN not URL.

- **-t, --turtle**

  Output results as Turtle RDF. If -f is enabled, full URIs are shown for subjects, predicates and objects; otherwise, shortened URIs are used, and all the prefixes Tracker knows about are printed at the top of the output.

## SEE ALSO

[**tracker3-sparql**(1)](/tracker3-sparql/1.md).

**http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/** **http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/**