DOCPROP

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 26 January 2000
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NAME

docprop - print properties of an OLE structured storage document  

SYNOPSIS

docprop [-f format] filename ...  

DESCRIPTION

Docprop can print the system and user-defined properties of the OLE structured storage documents specified in its command line. Document properties are typically used to record document meta information. Typical properties include the document's author, title, and keywords. By default docprop will output all known document properties in the form:
Property name:value
Boolean values are output as TRUE or FALSE, integers are output in decimal, floating point numbers are output with a precision of two decimal digits, absolute time values as yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss, and relative time values are output in seconds.  

OPTIONS

-f format
Specify the format of the output. The format is specified as a string with embedded references to property names. It is used to format the property output for every document specified. The format string can contain three types of of objects:
1. Plain characters which are copied to the output.
2. Character escapes (\c) which are converted to the corresponding control characters and then output. The following escape codes are supported: \a, \b, \f, \t, \r, \n, \v, \\.
3. Names of system or user-defined property names enclosed in braces; these are replaced by the value of the corresponding property.
The following system-defined property values are supported:
AppName
Author
Bytes
Category
Char Count
Comments
Company
Created
Doc Security
Edit Time
HeadingPairs
HiddenSlides
Keywords
Last Saved
Last printed
LastAuthor
Lines
LinksUpToDate
MMClips
Manager
Notes
Page Count
Paragraphs
PresentationTarget
Revision Number
ScaleCrop
Slides
Subject
Template
Thumpnail
Title
TitlesofParts
Word Count
 

EXAMPLE

The following will print the document name and author name of all Word documents in a directory:
docprop -f '{Filename} {Author}\n' *.doc  

SEE ALSO

D. Spinellis. Outwit: Unix tool-based programming meets the Windows world. In USENIX 2000 Technical Conference Proceedings, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2000, USENIX Association.  

AUTHOR

(C) Copyright 1999, 2000 Diomidis Spinellis. All rights reserved.

Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  

BUGS

The IPropertyStorage and IPropertySetStorage interfaces used by docprop were not defined in the original release of COM; thus docprop requires one of the following systems:
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Windows NT 4.0 or later
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Windows 98 or later
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Windows 95 with Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later
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Windows 95 with DCOM installed

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLE
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
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