opustags/opustags.1

.TH opustags 1 "November 2018" "@PROJECT_NAME@ @PROJECT_VERSION@"
.SH NAME
opustags \- Opus comment editor
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B opustags --help
.br
.B opustags
.RI [ OPTIONS ]
.I INPUT
.br
.B opustags
.I OPTIONS
.B -o
.I OUTPUT INPUT
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
\fBopustags\fP can read and edit the comment header of an Opus file.
It basically has two modes: read-only, and read-write for tag editing.
.PP
In read-only mode, only the beginning of \fIINPUT\fP is read, and the tags are
printed on standard output.
\fIINPUT\fP can either be the name of a file or \fB-\fP to read from standard input.
You can use the options below to edit the tags before printing them.
This could be useful to preview some changes before writing them.
.PP
In editing mode, you need to specify an output file with \fB--output\fP, or use \fB--in-place\fP to
overwrite the input file. If the output is a regular file, the result is first written to a
temporary file and then moved to its final location on success. On error, the temporary output file
is deleted.
.PP
Tag editing can be performed with the \fB--add\fP, \fB--delete\fP and \fB--set\fP
options. Options can be specified in any order and don’t conflict with each other.
First the specified tags are deleted, then the new tags are added.
.PP
You can delete all the tags with \fB--delete-all\fP. This operation can be combined with \fB--add\fP
to set new tags without being bothered by the old ones.
.PP
If you want to replace all the tags, you can use the \fB--set-all\fP option which will cause
\fBopustags\fP to read tags from standard input.
The format is the same as the one used for output: newline-separated \fIFIELD=Value\fP assignment.
All the previously existing tags as deleted.
.PP
\fBWarning:\fP the Opus format specifications requires tags to be encoded in
\fBUTF-8\fP. This tool ignores the system locale, assuming the encoding is
set to UTF-8, and assume that tags are already encoded in UTF-8.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Display a brief description of the options.
.TP
.B \-o, \-\-output \fIFILE\fI
Specify the output file.
The input file will be read, its tags edited, then written to the specified output file. If
\fIFILE\fP is \fB-\fP then the resulting Opus file will be written to standard output.
The output file can’t be the same as the input file.
.TP
.B \-i, \-\-in-place
Overwrite the input file instead of creating a separate output file. It has the same effect as
setting \fB--output\fP to the same path as the input file and enabling \fB--overwrite\fP.
This option conflicts with \fB--output\fP.
.TP
.B \-y, \-\-overwrite
By default, \fBopustags\fP refuses to overwrite an already-existent file.
Use \fB-y\fP to allow overwriting.
Note that this option is not needed when the output is a special file like \fI/dev/null\fP.
.TP
.B \-d, \-\-delete \fIFIELD\fP
Delete all the tags whose field name is \fIFIELD\fP. They may be several one of them, though usually
there is only one of each type.
.TP
.B \-a, \-\-add \fIFIELD=VALUE\fP
Add a tag. Note that multiple tags with the same field name are perfectly acceptable, so you can add
multiple fields with the same name, and previously existing tags will also be preserved.
When the \fB--delete\fP is used with the same \fIFIELD\fP, only the older tags are deleted.
.TP
.B \-s, \-\-set \fIFIELD=VALUE\fP
This option is provided for convenience. It delete all the fields of the same
type that may already exist, then adds it with the wanted value.
This is strictly equivalent to \fB--delete\fP \fIFIELD\fP \fB--add\fP
\fIFIELD=VALUE\fP. You can combine it with \fB--add\fP to add tags of the same
type. As deletion occurs before adding, \fB--set\fP won’t erase the tags
added with \fB--add\fP.
.TP
.B \-D, \-\-delete-all
Delete all the previously existing tags.
.TP
.B \-S, \-\-set-all
Sets the tags from scratch.
All the original tags are deleted and new ones are read from standard input.
Each line must specify a \fIFIELD=VALUE\fP pair and be separated with line feeds.
Invalid lines are skipped and cause a warning to be issued. Blank lines are ignored.
This mode could be useful for batch processing tags through an utility like \fBsed\fP.
.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
List all the tags in file foo.opus:
.PP
	opustags foo.opus
.PP
Copy in.opus to out.opus, with the TITLE tag added:
.PP
	opustags in.opus --output out.opus --add "TITLE=Hello world!"
.PP
Replace all the tags in dest.opus with the ones from src.opus:
.PP
	opustags src.opus | opustags --in-place dest.opus --set-all
.PP
Remove the previously existing ARTIST tags and add the two X and Y ARTIST tags, then display the new
tags without writing them to the Opus file:
.PP
	opustags in.opus --add ARTIST=X --add ARTIST=Y --delete ARTIST
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR vorbiscomment (1),
.BR sed (1)
.SH AUTHOR
Frédéric Mangano-Tarumi <fmang@mg0.fr>
.PP
Report bugs at <https://github.com/fmang/opustags/issues>