: Re: Command line extraction of metadata (title. author) from epub file I would like to use a command line to extract the title of a book (possibly also other metadata) from its epub file and return

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To print out epub metadata,

exiftool yourbook.epub

To edit the metadata, you'd need to unzip it and then zip it back again, as mentioned by others, epub is just a zip file

mkdir tempfolder
mv yourbook.epub tempfolder
cd tempfolder
unzip yourbook.epub
mv yourbook.epub ../youroldbook.epub

Find and edit the metadata in opf file

find . -iname '*.opf'

Metadata would most probably be in the <dc:title> tag,

<dc:title id="pub-title">TITLE OF YOUR BOOK</dc:title>

zip it after editing

zip -rX ../YOUR_BOOK.epub mimetype META-INF/ .

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