odfmeta - List or change the metadata of an ODF file

SørenRoug
           Original author

odfpy                                              02/11/2025                                         ODFMETA(1)

       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.

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.

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

       odfmeta - List or change the metadata of an ODF file

       -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 continuous 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.

formail(1), id3tag(1)

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