ZIMDUMP(1)

💖 ZIMDUMP — bestie's guide to dumping ZIM files 💖

okay so real talk, this is the zimdump page from the User Commands section of the manual, and it's genuinely so useful once it clicks. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

zimdump — dump a ZIM file 💅

like. it dumps a ZIM file. that's the whole vibe.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

zimdump [options] zimfile

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

the one positional argument 🎀

• zimfile — the ZIM file you wanna dump. that's it, that's the girl. 💖

the options (all of them, no skips, periodt) ✨

• -F — print fileinfo 📄
• -N NS — print info about namespace NS
• -i — print info about articles
• -d — print data of articles
• -p — print page
• -f TITLE — find article by TITLE 🔍
• -u URL — find article by URL
• -t — sort (and find) articles by title instead of url
• -l — list articles
• -L — list articles as a table 📊
• -o INDEX — locate article by INDEX
• -x — print extra parameters
• -n NS — specify namespace (default 'A') 👑
• -D DIR — dump all files into directory DIR
• -s — use symlink to dump html redirect. else create HTML redirect file.
• -v — verbose (print uncompressed length of articles when -i is set, print namespaces with counts with -F) 🗣️
• -V — print the software version number
• -Z — dump index data
• -C — verify checksum ✅

and that's the whole page bestie, no cap. this one ships with zim-tools, dated July 2020 — go forth and dump responsibly, mwah 💅💖✨