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NAME

marc-filter - Tool to filter records in MARC dataset.

SYNOPSIS

marc-filter [-e] [-h] [-i] [-n num] [-o format] [-r] [--version] marc_file search_item [sub_search_item] [value]

DESCRIPTION

Tool to filter MARC records in big datasets. Could filter by control field or field/subfield or leader or material type. Field 008 also supports item selectors in the form 008.item, parsed by MARC::Field008. Tool could filter by number of output records.

It supports MARC XML and USMARC files now.

ARGUMENTS

  • -e

    Match field/subfield existence.

  • -h

    Print help.

  • -i

    Invert searching.

  • -n num

    Number of records to output,

    Default value is all records to output.

  • -o format

    Output MARC format.

    Possible formats are ascii, xml.

  • -r

    Use value as Perl regexp.

  • --version

    Print version of script.

  • marc_file

    MARC XML or USMARC file name.

    Input file could be compressed by IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress module. Possibility is to uncompress gzip, zip, bzip2, zstd, xz, lzma, lzip, lzf or lzop.

  • search_item

    Search item could be MARC control field or MARC field or 'leader' string or material type string. Field 008 also supports item selectors in the form 008.item.

    Possible field 008 items are:

    • cataloging_source

    • date1

    • date2

    • date_entered_on_file

    • language

    • modified_record

    • place_of_publication

    • type_of_date

    Possible material type strings are:

    • book

    • computer_file

    • continuing_resource

    • map

    • mixed_material

    • music

    • visual_material

  • sub_search_item

    In the case of MARC field this could be a subfield. It's optional with -e.

  • value

    Value to filter. For 008.date1 and 008.date2 it's possible to use range syntax in the form YYYY..YYYY. It's required without -e.

REPOSITORY

https://github.com/michal-josef-spacek/App-MARC-Filter

AUTHOR

Michal Josef Špaček mailto:skim@cpan.org

http://skim.cz

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

© 2022-2026 Michal Josef Špaček

BSD 2-Clause License

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Development of this software has been made possible by institutional support for the long-term strategic development of the National Library of the Czech Republic as a research organization provided by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (DKRVO 2024–2028), Area 11: Linked Open Data.

VERSION

0.12