ebook-meta(1)
NAME
ebook-meta - part of calibre
SYNOPSIS
ebook-meta ebook_file [options]
DESCRIPTION
Read/Write metadata from/to ebook files.
Supported formats for reading metadata: azw1, rtf, prc, lrf, odt, cbr,
opf, rar, cbz, lrx, txt, epub, mobi, zip, oebzip, fb2, tpz, lit, imp,
html, rb, pdf, pdb, azw
Supported formats for writing metadata: rtf, prc, lrf, mobi, pdf, pdb,
epub, azw
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.
OPTIONS
- --version
- show program's version number and exit
- -h, --help
- show this help message and exit
- -t, --title
- Set the title.
- -a, --authors
- Set the authors. Multiple authors should be separated by the & character. Author names should be in the order Firstname Lastname.
- --title-sort
- 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.
- --author-sort
- 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).
- --cover
- Set the cover to the specified file.
- -c, --comments
- Set the ebook description.
- -p, --publisher
- Set the ebook publisher.
- --category
- Set the book category.
- -s, --series
- Set the series this ebook belongs to.
- -i, --index
- Set the index of the book in this series.
- -r, --rating
- Set the rating. Should be a number between 1 and 5.
- --isbn Set the ISBN of the book.
- --tags Set the tags for the book. Should be a comma separated list.
- -k, --book-producer
- Set the book producer.
- -l, --language
- Set the language.
- --get-cover
- Get the cover from the ebook and save it at as the specified file.
- --to-opf
- Specify the name of an OPF file. The metadata will be written to the OPF file.
- --from-opf
- Read metadata from the specified OPF file and use it to set metadata in the ebook. Metadata specified on the command line will override metadata read from the OPF file
- --lrf-bookid
- Set the BookID in LRF files
SEE ALSO
The User Manual is available at http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/user_manual
- Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>