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YAZ-MARCDUMP(1) 		    Commands			 YAZ-MARCDUMP(1)

NAME
     yaz-marcdump - MARC record dump utility

SYNOPSIS
     yaz-marcdump [-i format] [-o format] [-f from] [-t to] [-l spec] [-c cfile]
		  [-s prefix]  [-C size]  [-O offset]  [-L limit] [-n] [-p] [-r]
		  [-v] [-V] [file...]

DESCRIPTION
     yaz-marcdump reads MARC records from one or  more	files.	It  parses  each
     record   and   supports   output	in   line-format,  ISO2709,  MARCXML[1],
     MARC-in-JSON[2], MarcXchange[3] as well as Hex output.

     This utility parses records ISO2709(raw MARC),  line  format,  MARC-in-JSON
     format as well as XML if that is structured as MARCXML/MarcXchange.

     MARC-in-JSON encoding/decoding is supported in YAZ 5.0.5 and later.

	 Note

	 As  of  YAZ 2.1.18, OAI-MARC is no longer supported. OAI-MARC is depre-
	 cated. Use MARCXML instead.

     By default, each record is written to standard output in a line format with
     newline for each field, $x for each sub-field x. The output format  may  be
     changed with option -o,

     yaz-marcdump  can	also be requested to perform character set conversion of
     each record.

OPTIONS
     -i format
	 Specifies input format. Must be one of marcxml, marc (ISO2709),  marcx-
	 change  (ISO25577),  line  (line mode MARC), turbomarc (Turbo MARC), or
	 json (MARC-in-JSON).

     -o format
	 Specifies output format. Must be one of marcxml, marc (ISO2709), marcx-
	 change (ISO25577), line (line mode MARC), turbomarc  (Turbo  MARC),  or
	 json (MARC-in-JSON).

     -f from
	 Specify  the  character set of the input MARC record. Should be used in
	 conjunction with option -t. Refer to the yaz-iconv man  page  for  sup-
	 ported character sets.

     -t to
	 Specify  the character set of the output. Should be used in conjunction
	 with option -f. Refer to the yaz-iconv man page for supported character
	 sets.

     -l leaderspec
	 Specify a simple modification string for MARC leader. The leaderspec is
	 a list of pos=value pairs, where pos is an integer offset (0 - 23)  for
	 leader.  Value is either a quoted string or an integer (character value
	 in decimal). Pairs are comma separated. For example, to set  leader  at
	 offset 9 to a, use 9='a'.

     -s prefix
	 Writes  a  chunk  of records to a separate file with prefix given, i.e.
	 splits a record batch into files with	only  at  most	"chunk"  ISO2709
	 records  per file. By default chunk is 1 (one record per file). See op-
	 tion -C.

     -C chunksize
	 Specifies chunk size; to be used conjunction with option -s.

     -O offset
	 Integer offset for at what position records whould be written.  0=first
	 record,  1=second,  ..  With -L option, this allows a specific range of
	 records to be processed.

     -L limit
	 Integer limit for how many records should at most be written.	With  -O
	 option, this allows a specific range of records to be processed.

     -p
	 Makes	yaz-marcdump  print  record number and input file offset of each
	 record read.

     -n
	 MARC output is omitted so that MARC input is only checked.

     -r
	 Writes to stderr a summary about number of records  read  by  yaz-marc-
	 dump.

     -v
	 Writes  more  information about the parsing process. Useful if you have
	 ill-formatted ISO2709 records as input.

     -V
	 Prints YAZ version.

EXAMPLES
     The  following  command  converts	MARC21/USMARC  in  MARC-8  encoding   to
     MARC21/USMARC  in UTF-8 encoding. Leader offset 9 is set to 'a'. Both input
     and output records are ISO2709 encoded.

	     yaz-marcdump -f MARC-8 -t UTF-8 -o marc -l 9=97 marc21.raw >marc21.utf8.raw

     The same records may be converted to MARCXML instead in UTF-8:

	     yaz-marcdump -f MARC-8 -t UTF-8 -o marcxml marc21.raw >marcxml.xml

     Turbo MARC is a compact XML notation with same semantics  as  MARCXML,  but
     which  allows  for  faster  processing via XSLT. In order to generate Turbo
     MARC records encoded in UTF-8 from MARC21 (ISO), one could use:

	     yaz-marcdump -f MARC8 -t UTF8 -o turbomarc -i marc marc21.raw >out.xml

FILES
     prefix/bin/yaz-marcdump

     prefix/include/yaz/marcdisp.h

SEE ALSO
     yaz(7)

     yaz-iconv(1)

AUTHORS
     Index Data

NOTES
      1. MARCXML
	 https://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/

      2. MARC-in-JSON
	 https://rossfsinger.com/blog/2010/09/a-proposal-to-serialize-marc-in-json/

      3. MarcXchange
	 https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso25577/

YAZ 5.35.0			   04/10/2025			 YAZ-MARCDUMP(1)

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