TRACKER3-INFO(1)

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version 3.7.1 · 7 versions
, in ubuntu noble

💖 TRACKER3-INFO 💖

okay so bestie, this is the Tracker manual page for tracker3-info, and it's literally the "tell me EVERYTHING about this file" command. no cap. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

tracker3-info — Retrieve all information available for a certain file.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tracker3 info [options...] <file1> [[file2] ...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so tracker3 info asks for all the known metadata available for the file you hand it. it's giving nosy bestie energy and honestly? we love that for it. 💅

you can pass multiple file arguments too, if you wanna get the tea on more than one file at once. multitasking queen. 👑

and the file argument can be either a local path or a URI. it also does not have to be an absolute path. so like, relax, you don't need the whole entire address, bestie. 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -f, --full-namespaces — by default, every key and value it reports about a given file comes back in shortened form — for example, nie:title shows up instead of http://tracker.api.gnome.org/ontology/v3/nie#title. which makes things so much easier to read and the output way less cluttered, fr fr. this option reverses that, so FULL namespaces get shown instead. long queen behavior. 💖
  • -c, --plain-text-content — if the resource being displayed has nie:PlainTextContent (that's the info about the content of the resource, which could literally be the contents of a file on the disk), then this option shows that in the output. it's the "and also, here's the actual words" option. 📝
  • -i, --resource-is-iri — in most cases, the file argument you supply points to a URL or PATH which gets queried according to the resource associated with it by nie:url. but in cases where the file you specified turns out to be the actual URN itself, you need this argument to tell tracker3 info not to do the extra step of looking up the URN related by nie:url. basically: "bestie, don't do the extra homework, this IS the thing." 🙈

for example, consider that you store URNs by the actual URL itself and use the unique nie:url in another resource (which is quite reasonable when using containers and multi-resource conditions), you would need this argument to tell tracker3 info that the file supplied is actually a URN not URL.

  • -t, --turtle — outputs the results as Turtle RDF. if -f is enabled, full URIs are shown for subjects, predicates and objects; otherwise, shortened URIs are used, and all the prefixes Tracker knows about get printed at the top of the output. 🐢✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ngl, if something here is dangerous or deprecated, the manpage would say so — and so would i, dramatically. this one's just chillin' though. 💜

k byeee, this was tracker3-info from Tracker version 3.7.1, dated 02/03/2026. slay, go read your file metadata, icon. 💅🎀🦋

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