NAME

       ebook-meta - ebook-meta

          ebook-meta ebook_file [options]

       Read/Write metadata from/to e-book files.

       Supported  formats  for  reading metadata: azw, azw1, azw3, azw4, cb7, cbc, cbr, cbz, chm,
       docx, epub, fb2, fbz, html, htmlz, imp, lit, lrf, lrx, mobi, odt, oebzip, opf,  pdb,  pdf,
       pml, pmlz, pobi, prc, rar, rb, rtf, snb, tpz, txt, txtz, updb, zip

       Supported  formats  for  writing  metadata:  azw,  azw1, azw3, azw4, docx, epub, fb2, fbz,
       htmlz, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, tpz, txtz

       Different file types support different kinds of metadata. If you try to set some  metadata
       on a file type that does not support it, the metadata will be silently ignored.

       Whenever  you pass arguments to ebook-meta that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments
       in quotation marks. For example: "/some path/with spaces"

[OPTIONS]

       --author-sort
              String to be used when sorting by author. If unspecified,  and  the  author(s)  are
              specified, it will be auto-generated from the author(s).

       --authors, -a
              Set  the  authors.  Multiple authors should be separated by the & character. Author
              names should be in the order Firstname Lastname.

       --book-producer, -k
              Set the book producer.

       --category
              Set the book category.

       --comments, -c
              Set the e-book description.

       --cover
              Set the cover to the specified file.

       --date, -d
              Set the published date.

       --disallow-rendered-cover
              For formats like EPUB that use a  "default  cover"  of  the  first  page  rendered,
              disallow such default covers

       --from-opf
              Read metadata from the specified OPF file and use it to set metadata in the e-book.
              Metadata specified on the command line will override metadata  read  from  the  OPF
              file

       --get-cover
              Get the cover from the e-book and save it at as the specified file.

       --help, -h
              show this help message and exit

       --identifier
              Set  the  identifiers  for  the book, can be specified multiple times. For example:
              --identifier uri:https://acme.com --identifier isbn:12345 To remove an  identifier,
              specify no value, --identifier isbn: Note that for EPUB files, an identifier marked
              as the package identifier cannot be removed.

       --index, -i
              Set the index of the book in this series.

       --isbn Set the ISBN of the book.

       --language, -l
              Set the language.

       --lrf-bookid
              Set the BookID in LRF files

       --publisher, -p
              Set the e-book publisher.

       --rating, -r
              Set the rating. Should be a number between 1 and 5.

       --series, -s
              Set the series this e-book belongs to.

       --tags Set the tags for the book. Should be a comma separated list.

       --title, -t
              Set the title.

       --title-sort
              The version of the title to be used for sorting. If unspecified, and the  title  is
              specified, it will be auto-generated from the title.

       --to-opf
              Specify the name of an OPF file. The metadata will be written to the OPF file.

       --version
              show program's version number and exit

AUTHOR

       Kovid Goyal

COPYRIGHT

       Kovid Goyal