bins_edit [-a
| --album
] [-m
| --html
] [-t title
| --title title
] [-e event
| --event event
] [-l location
| --location location
] [-p people
| --people people
] [-y date
| --date date
] [-d description
| --description description
] [--longdesc longDescription
] [--shortdesc shortDescription
] [--sample pictureFileName
] [-g tag=value
| --generic tag=value
] [-h
| --help
] [-v
| --verbose
] [-q
| --quiet
] [file] [files...]
This manual page documents briefly the bins_edit command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
Instead, it has documentation in HTML in
/usr/share/doc/bins/index.html as well as a
--help
option.
bins_edit sets values in the XML picture description files that bins(1) uses to generate galleries.
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.
By default, file is the filename of the XML file with the image properties. If the argument has no .xml suffix, it is added, so you can directly give picture names on the command line. Spaces and other special characters (even newlines) can be used in values given as parameters as long as they are enclosed between quotes.
If the --album
option is given, the
filename refers to the directory of images, and the
album.xml in that directory will be
modified instead.
-a
, --album
edit album description (instead of the default of
editing the image description.)
In this case, the file parameter must be the
source directory of the album.
Only the --title
, --longdesc
, --shortdesc
and --sample
switches make sense with this option.
-m
, --html
input value will be interpreted as HTML code, thus, no HTML encoding or quoting will be done.
-t title
, --title title
Set the title (of an image.)
-e event
, --event event
Set the event name (of an album or image.)
-l location
, --location location
Set the location (of an image.)
-p people
, --people people
Set the list of people (of an image.)
-y date
, --date date
Set the date (of an image.)
-d description
, --description description
Set the description (of an image.)
--longdesc longDescription
Set the long description (of an album.)
--shortdesc shortDescription
Set the short description (of an album.)
--sample pictureFileName
Select the sample picture, within this album, to be used on the album list (template subalbum.html.) Note that the filename is relative to the album directory, and thus doesn't have a directory component.
-g tag=value
, --generic tag=value
This lets you set arbitrary fields in the relevant
XML file (of the image or the album.)
Generic tags appear inside description
which appears inside image
; the
tag appears as the
name
attribute of a
field
element, and the
value appears as the content of
the element.
-h
, --help
Gives quick help (which this man page is based on.)
-v
, --verbose
This switch can appear several times to increase verbosity level.
-q
, --quiet
Suppress output.
Set the title of the Image.jpg file to "My picture":
bins_edit -t "My picture" Image.jpg
Set the title and location of all JPEG pictures in the directory:
bins_edit --title Holiday --location Paris *.jpg
Use of HTML values:
bins_edit --html --description '<b>BINS</b> is cool' file.jpg
Set the title short description and sample image of the album in the current directory (note the dot as final parameter):
bins_edit -a -t "My Album" --sample image.jpg --shortdesc "This is my album" .
This manual page was written by Mark W. Eichin <eichin@thok.org>
for
the Debian system (but may be used by others). As it is
mostly derived from the bins_edit program
itself, it is covered by the GNU General Public License.