It reads and writes metadata information from/to many files, but primarily focuses on photos/images. minfo -m subject Make_Electronics.JExifToolGUI is a java/Swing Windows/Linux/MacOS graphical frontend for the excellent command-line application called ExifTool by Phil Harvey.ĮxifTool is a platform-independent Perl command-line application and library for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.Įxiftool is by far the best and most extensive metadata tool available! minfo -m publisher Make_Electronics.epubīeaker$. minfo -m title Make_Electronics.epubīeaker$. Finally, strip off the tags to leave just the metadata.īeaker$.

Then it uses zipgrep to find occurrences of the desired metadata type in that file. epub (normally OEBPScontent.opf, but it can be named anything as long as it has the. This uses unzip -l to find out where the. %%e' '%%f')Ĭopyright your books free USA intraday stocks NSE intraday stocksĠ Reactions a quick bash script (with no error-checking whatsoever) to do what you want:įileloc=`unzip -l '' | grep -Po 'b*.opfb'` Exampleįor /R '01-input' %%f in (*.epub) do (exiftool '-filename<$title - $creator.%%e' '%%f')Įdit2: On the off chance your tags contain 'illegal' characters, outlined here (), place the tag inside. To make them recursive into subdirectories you need to change the for formatting. This renames any epubs in a folder, to the Title and Authorįor %%f in (01-input*.epub) do (exiftool '-filename<$title - $creator.%%e' '%%f') This moves any epubs in folder DIR into folders sorted by their Creator (Author).įor %%f in (DIR*.epubs) do (exiftool '%%f' '-Directoryare formatted for batch files with %% and '. Here is a few scripts I wrote for it that might help someone out. Enjoy.Įdit: Also, since exiftool is a GIANT PITA and their help is semi useless. If you run -T uppercase, it just shows the tags. If you push -t lowercase it shows you the description of the tags you pulled. exiftool -t -Title -Creator -PublicationDate -CreatorFile-as nameofthe.epub this is how you use it. This line gives you a giant output of all the metadata tags you can extract using exiftool. So since nobody has ANY info on this online and this is the top search results.

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