[Old Thread] Can you print out your Calibre catalog?

[kakkalla]

Ha ha! Yes, I did. Nothing happens when I press tab once. Press it again and I seem to get a listing of my home directory. This is in Terminal on a Mac.

[Manichean]

Okay, I was afraid something like that might happen. This may sound like a stupid idea, but why not try to cut a tab out from a text file and paste it in?
You could also try to find out which encoding the Mac terminal uses, then find out what code you need to generate a tab and use that- for example, in Windows, you can generate an ASCII character by holding AltGr and typing the decimal value of that character, there should be something similar for Macs.

[kakkalla]

Tried copying and pasting but it doesn't work. I'll have to try and did it up.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by kakkalla

Tried copying and pasting but it doesn't work. I'll have to try and did it up.

I wonder if \t would be honored?

[Man Eating Duck]

Originally Posted by kakkalla

What if I wanted a tab as the separator? I don't know how to enter a tab in Terminal after the --separator= command.

Thank you.

Old thread, but I'll pitch in my solution for the benefit of Googlers:

Just use a marker for the separator and replace it with tabs in an editor, like this:

calibredb list --separator="SEPARATOR" >list.txt

Then you just search/replace with a decent editor like textpad or notepad++.

On Linux this command will give you a tab-separated list in list.txt:

$ calibredb list --separator="SEPARATOR" | sed 's# *SEPARATOR#\t#g'>list.txt