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mobimeta(1) General Commands Manual (urm) mobimeta(1)

NAME

mobimeta — Utility for modifying metadata of MOBI format ebook files.

SYNOPSIS

mobimeta [-a meta=value[,meta=value,...]] [-d meta[,meta,...]] [-s meta=value[,meta=value,...]] [-p pid] [-P serial] [-hv] filein [fileout]

DESCRIPTION

The program handles .prc, .mobi, .azw, .azw3, .azw4, some .pdb documents. It is powered by 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:

meta=value[,meta=value,...]
add (append) metadata
meta[,meta,...]
delete metadata
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
pid
set pid for decryption
serial
set device serial number for decryption
show usage summary and exit
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 ?

Or in case your shell expands quotation mark:

% mobimeta -a "?"

RETURN VALUES

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2014-2022 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.

SEE ALSO

mobitool(1) mobidrm(1)

February 16, 2022 Unix