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Bertrand · 02-23-2022, 05:30 AM

Thanks for your answer.
Unfortunately, no, it doesn't work. There's no --search option in the export command.
It would be great to have some kind of filters when exporting.

But, you gave me an idea : according to the doc :
"calibredb search - The output format is useful to feed into other commands that accept a list of ids as input.""

So

Code:

calibredb search tags:"my tag"

give me all the ids I want

then

Code:

calibredb export id1,id2,etc --to-dir "I:\test"

and I get what I want.

Now the problem is, how do I pass this (big!) list of ids to the export command, in a batch file...
I'll have to think about it

Thanks !

02-23-2022, 05:30 AM	#3
Bertrand Zealot Posts: 124 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: France Device: None	Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, no, it doesn't work. There's no --search option in the export command. It would be great to have some kind of filters when exporting. But, you gave me an idea : according to the doc : "calibredb search - The output format is useful to feed into other commands that accept a list of ids as input."" So Code: calibredb search tags:"my tag" give me all the ids I want then Code: calibredb export id1,id2,etc --to-dir "I:\test" and I get what I want. Now the problem is, how do I pass this (big!) list of ids to the export command, in a batch file... I'll have to think about it Thanks !