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. 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.

  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. 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

0.11