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ODFMETA(1)			 User commands			    ODFMETA(1)

NAME
       odfmeta - List or change the metadata of an ODF file

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

DESCRIPTION
       odfmeta 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 -o 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 ALSO
       formail(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.

AUTHOR
       Søren Roug
	   Original author

odfpy				  03/15/2009			    ODFMETA(1)

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