mobimeta - Man Page

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

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 ?

The mobimeta utility returns 0 on success, 1 on error.

Copyright (C) 2014-2016 Bartek Fabiszewski.

Released under LGPL version 3 or any later (same as libmobi).

Visit http://www.fabiszewski.net for details.

For diagnostics libmobi must be configured with [--enable-debug] option.

mobitool(1)

mobitool(1).