1ODFMETA(1)                       User commands                      ODFMETA(1)
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NAME

6       odfmeta - List or change the metadata of an ODF file
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SYNOPSIS

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

14       odfmeta is a program that will list or change the metadata in an
15       OpenDocument file. This is useful for version control systems. You can
16       change title, keywords, description etc.
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18       “Path” is assumed to be an OpenDocument file of text, spreadsheet or
19       presentation type.
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OPTIONS

22       -l
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25       -v or -V
26           Print the version number of the ODF document format. If you use -V
27           it will print "version:" before the number for compatibility with
28           -X. The version number can´t be modified.
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30       -c
31           Make field values continous by normalizing white space. Might be
32           convenient when postprocessing with standard (line oriented) text
33           utilities.
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35       -d
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38       -x metafield
39           Extract the contents of this metafield from the file. Known field
40           names are creation-date, creator, date, description,
41           editing-cycles, editing-duration, generator, initial-creator,
42           keyword, language, print-date, printed-by, subject, title,
43           user-defined. All other names are assumed to be user defined.
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45       -X metafield
46           Same as -x, but also preserves/includes the field name.
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49           Append a custom metafield to the metadata; but only if a similar
50           field does not exist yet.
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59       -o path
60           Filename to write modified ODT file to. If no -o option is
61           provided, the ODT file will be written to stdout.
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EXAMPLES

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

68       formail(1), id3tag(1)
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BUGS

71       All known versions of OpenOffice.org keep only four <meta:user-defined>
72       elements. If you add more than those, you´ll loose them next time you
73       save with OpenOffice.org. KOffice keeps only one <meta:keyword>
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AUTHOR

77       Søren Roug
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82odfpy                             03/15/2009                        ODFMETA(1)
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