odfpySørenRougOriginal authorodfmeta1User commandsodfmetaList or change the metadata of an ODF fileodfmeta-l-v-V-c-d-x metafield-X metafield-a metafield-A metafield-I metafield-o pathpathDescriptionodfmeta is a program that will list or change
the metadata in an OpenDocument file. This is useful for version
control systems. 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 option is provided, the ODT file will be written to stdout.
Examples
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 Alsoformail(1),
id3tag(1)
Bugs
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.