ODFMETA(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Okay bestie, welcome to odfmeta(1) — User commands page, very demure, very metadata. odfmeta is the program that will list or change the metadata of an ODF file. It’s lowkey a lifesaver for version control systems, no cap. You can change title, keywords, description, etc. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here’s the vibe:

odfmeta [-l] [-v] [-V] [-c] [-d] [-x metafield...] [-X metafield...]
        [-a metafield...] [-A metafield...] [-I metafield...] [-o path]
        path

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So odfmeta is a program that will list or change the metadata in an OpenDocument file. It’s useful for version control systems — periodt. You can change title, keywords, description, etc. 🦋

“Path” is assumed to be an OpenDocument file of text, spreadsheet or presentation type. 🌸

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -l — List (extract) all known metadata fields. 👑
• -v or -V — Print the version number of the ODF document format. If you use -V, it will print "version:" before the number for compatibility with -X. The version number can’t be modified. 🎀
• -c — Make field values continous by normalizing white space. Might be convenient when postprocessing with standard (line oriented) text utilities. ✨
• -d — Update the modification date to the current date and time. 🕰️
• -x metafield — Extract the contents of this metafield from the file. Known field names are creation-date, creator, date, description, editing-cycles, editing-duration, generator, initial-creator, keyword, language, print-date, printed-by, subject, title, user-defined. All other names are assumed to be user defined. 🌈
• -X metafield — Same as -x, but also preserves/includes the field name. 💖
• -a metafield — Append a custom metafield to the metadata; but only if a similar field does not exist yet. 🦋
• -A metafield — Append a custom metafield to the metadata in any case. 🔥
• -I metafield — Append a custom metafield to the metadata and remove any existing similar field. 💅
• -o path — Filename to write modified ODT file to. If no -o option is provided, the ODT file will be written to stdout. 🌟

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

Try these, they ate:

odfmeta -l odf-file.odt
odfmeta -I "title:The Little Engine That Could" -A subject:I-think-I-can -o newfile.odt source.odt

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• formail(1)
• id3tag(1)

💀 BUGS 💀

Heads up bestie: all known versions of OpenOffice.org keep only four <meta:user-defined> elements. If you add more than those, you’ll loose them next time you save with OpenOffice.org. KOffice keeps only one <meta:keyword> element. 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

• Søren Roug — Original author

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mwah 💖 — this ODFMETA(1) page comes from odfpy, and its date is 03/15/2009.