View books from command line

nichtleiter · 12-20-2013, 09:18 AM

Hi all,

i use calibre on a notebook that runs linux and has not enough power for the gui. That means i have to wait at least one minute if the user interface is ready for any input.

Therefore i have to use the command line tools. Adding, removing and searching for special books is no problem at all. But if i want to view a book by it's database id, i have to hack my own solution. At the moment i use sth. like this, to view a specific book.

I begin with searching by keyword to get the database id. Supposing the id of the book i want to view is 713 the command i invoke is

Code:

xpdf "$(calibredb list -f "formats" -w 1000 | perl -ne 'print $1 if /^713.*\[(.*?)\]/')"

I would like to know how one of those experts around here would open a book from command line or whether i have missed a point in the calibre documentation which just states how to view a book from the database from command line!?

Thanks in advance and best regards

theducks · 12-20-2013, 09:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nichtleiter

Hi all,

i use calibre on a notebook that runs linux and has not enough power for the gui. That means i have to wait at least one minute if the user interface is ready for any input.

Therefore i have to use the command line tools. Adding, removing and searching for special books is no problem at all. But if i want to view a book by it's database id, i have to hack my own solution. At the moment i use sth. like this, to view a specific book.

I begin with searching by keyword to get the database id. Supposing the id of the book i want to view is 713 the command i invoke is

Code:

xpdf "$(calibredb list -f "formats" -w 1000 | perl -ne 'print $1 if /^713.*\[(.*?)\]/')"

I would like to know how one of those experts around here would open a book from command line or whether i have missed a point in the calibre documentation which just states how to view a book from the database from command line!?

Thanks in advance and best regards

I don't have the command: but the program you want is in: (using the Calibre command line install path)

/opt/calibre/ebook-viewer

nichtleiter · 12-20-2013, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

I don't have the command: but the program you want is in: (using the Calibre command line install path)

/opt/calibre/ebook-viewer

Thank you for your reply!

Unfortunately i don't find an option of ebook-viewer that allows to select a specific ebook by its database id. Moreover i prefer to view an ebook with xpdf on the aforementioned notebook or alternatively with xdg-open, since its very resource friendly.

I'll wait for more answers...

eschwartz · 12-20-2013, 03:05 PM

sounds like a reasonable way to me. But you might want to ask Kovid as an enhancement for a way to open a book from calibredb.

12-20-2013, 09:18 AM	#1
nichtleiter Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2013 Device: none	View books from command line Hi all, i use calibre on a notebook that runs linux and has not enough power for the gui. That means i have to wait at least one minute if the user interface is ready for any input. Therefore i have to use the command line tools. Adding, removing and searching for special books is no problem at all. But if i want to view a book by it's database id, i have to hack my own solution. At the moment i use sth. like this, to view a specific book. I begin with searching by keyword to get the database id. Supposing the id of the book i want to view is 713 the command i invoke is Code: xpdf "$(calibredb list -f "formats" -w 1000 \| perl -ne 'print $1 if /^713.\[(.?)\]/')" I would like to know how one of those experts around here would open a book from command line or whether i have missed a point in the calibre documentation which just states how to view a book from the database from command line!? Thanks in advance and best regards

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12-20-2013, 03:05 PM	#4
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85397180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	sounds like a reasonable way to me. But you might want to ask Kovid as an enhancement for a way to open a book from calibredb.

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