04-17-2016
yeah although i got a few splinters from the scratching
I can accomplish this fine with a line of text ie
Quote:
echo "The Evil Within - a Top Murder Squad Detective Reveals the Chilling True Stories of the World's (572)" | sed 's/(.*//'
give me the output i would like to rename to but how to apply this recursively to all directories is currently evading me
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EBOOK-META(1) calibre EBOOK-META(1)
NAME
ebook-meta - part of calibre
SYNOPSIS
ebook-meta ebook_file [options]
DESCRIPTION
Read/Write metadata from/to ebook files.
Supported formats for reading metadata: azw, azw1, cbr, cbz, chm, epub, fb2, html, imp, lit, lrf, lrx, mobi, odt, oebzip, opf, pdb, pdf,
pml, pmlz, prc, rar, rb, rtf, tpz, txt, zip
Supported formats for writing metadata: azw, azw1, epub, lrf, mobi, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, tpz
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.
OPTIONS
--version
show program's version number and exit
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
-t, --title
Set the title.
-a, --authors
Set the authors. Multiple authors should be separated by the & character. Author names should be in the order Firstname Lastname.
--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.
--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).
--cover
Set the cover to the specified file.
-c, --comments
Set the ebook description.
-p, --publisher
Set the ebook publisher.
--category
Set the book category.
-s, --series
Set the series this ebook belongs to.
-i, --index
Set the index of the book in this series.
-r, --rating
Set the rating. Should be a number between 1 and 5.
--isbn Set the ISBN of the book.
--tags Set the tags for the book. Should be a comma separated list.
-k, --book-producer
Set the book producer.
-l, --language
Set the language.
-d, --date
Set the published date.
--get-cover
Get the cover from the ebook and save it at as the specified file.
--to-opf
Specify the name of an OPF file. The metadata will be written to the OPF file.
--from-opf
Read metadata from the specified OPF file and use it to set metadata in the ebook. Metadata specified on the command line will over-
ride metadata read from the OPF file
--lrf-bookid
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SEE ALSO
The User Manual is available at http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual
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ebook-meta (calibre 0.6.53) July 2010 EBOOK-META(1)