Features

• extract file attributes

• display attribute values in a tabular fashion

• display output table as plain text, CSV, simple RestructuredText, HTML

• display output table interactively (OS X Cocoa and Django, experimental)

• sort output by one or more attribute values

• filter files with attributes satisfying some expression

• provide a plugin architecture

• provide a plugin for filesystem attributes

• provide plugins for XML and Python

• provide plugins for Spotlight attributes and file bundles (OS X)

• provide plugins for media formats PDF, MP3 and Quicktime (experimental)

• install a Python package named fileinfo

• install a Python command-line script named fileinfo

• provide a Unittest test suite

• install test suite inside the installed package

• test samples include MP3, PDF, TTF and Python files

Examples

From the system command-line you use fileinfo e.g. like this:

$ python fileinfo -a npages *.pdf

Here is an example of some statistics for Python code (taken from the top-level of Docutils 0.5):

$ cd docutils-0.5/build/lib/docutils
$ fileinfo -a lc:nclasses:ndefs:ndocstrs *.py
  lc  nclasses  ndefs  ndocstrs  path
 205         5      2         3  __init__.py
 616         1     24        14  core.py
  97         0      3         4  examples.py
 760         5     34        18  frontend.py
 413         9     22        14  io.py
1802       130    124        39  nodes.py
1491        19     91        60  statemachine.py
 137         0      0         1  urischemes.py
 594         9     32        25  utils.py
6115       178    332       178  total

Here is another example for Mac OS X Widgets:

$ cd /Library/Widgets
$ fileinfo --format rest-simple -a bundlename:bundleversion *.wdgt
=================  =============  ======================
bundlename         bundleversion  path
=================  =============  ======================
Address Book       1.1.5          Address Book.wdgt
Calculator         1.2            Calculator.wdgt
Dictionary         2.0.1          Dictionary.wdgt
Flight Tracker     1.3            Flight Tracker.wdgt
Movies             0.4            Movies.wdgt
Stickies           2.0            Stickies.wdgt
Stocks             1.3            Stocks.wdgt
Tile Game          1.0.2          Tile Game.wdgt
Unit Converter     2.2            Unit Converter.wdgt
Weather            1.1            Weather.wdgt
WebClip            1.0            Web Clip.wdgt
World Clock        2.0            World Clock.wdgt
Calendar           3.1            iCal.wdgt
                                  total
=================  =============  ======================