mobimeta - Man Page
Utility for modifying metadata of MOBI format ebook files.
Synopsis
Description
The program handles .prc, .mobi, .azw; .azw3, .azw4, some .pdb documents. Written as a test case for libmobi library.
Invoked without arguments prints document metadata and exits. If fileout is specified, modified document will be saved with this name, otherwise original input filein will be modified.
A list of flags and their descriptions:
- -a meta=value[,meta=value,...]
add (append) metadata
- -d meta[,meta,...]
delete metadata
- -s meta=value[,meta=value,...]
set (replace) metadata
- meta
for a list of valid named meta keys try mobimeta {-a | -d | -s} ?. If meta is an integer it will be treated as a numeric EXTH record key (expert usage).
- value
new value that will be set for a given meta key
- -p pid
set pid for decryption
- -P serial
set device serial number for decryption
- -v
show version and exit
Examples
The following command will set new title, new author and will delete all publisher metadata (if any).
mobimeta -s title="My title",author="My name" -d publisher example.mobi
The following command appends EXTH record identified by its numeric key 204 with numeric value 201.
mobimeta -a 204=201 example.mobi
The following command will list valid meta named keys.
mobimeta -a ?
Return Values
The mobimeta utility returns 0 on success, 1 on error.
Copyright
Copyright (C) 2014-2016 Bartek Fabiszewski.
Released under LGPL version 3 or any later (same as libmobi).
Web Site
Visit http://www.fabiszewski.net for details.
Diagnostics
For diagnostics libmobi must be configured with [--enable-debug
] option.