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wladdy · 08-12-2018, 07:23 AM

Hello,

I add books to Calibre through a shell script that properly sets "Author" and "Title".
I am aware that I could also include "Author sort" and "Title sort", but that would make me write into the script rules to generate the latter from the former. I would rather avoid that. For consistency, I prefer to use always Calibre's rules.
Therefore, after the script finishes running, I bulk edit the metadata of the books I've added. No bid deal, but I would rather this step be done automatically through the command line interface.

My question is:

Is there a way to use a CLI command such as calibredb to deduce "Author sort" and "Title sort" from "Author" and "Title"?

Many thanks in advance! W.

08-12-2018, 07:23 AM	#1
wladdy Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: iPad / Kindle DX	Deducing "Author sort" and "Title sort" through CLI Hello, I add books to Calibre through a shell script that properly sets "Author" and "Title". I am aware that I could also include "Author sort" and "Title sort", but that would make me write into the script rules to generate the latter from the former. I would rather avoid that. For consistency, I prefer to use always Calibre's rules. Therefore, after the script finishes running, I bulk edit the metadata of the books I've added. No bid deal, but I would rather this step be done automatically through the command line interface. My question is: Is there a way to use a CLI command such as calibredb to deduce "Author sort" and "Title sort" from "Author" and "Title"? Many thanks in advance! W.