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OSMIUM-CAT(1)							   OSMIUM-CAT(1)

NAME
     osmium-cat - concatenate OSM files and convert to different formats

SYNOPSIS
     osmium cat [OPTIONS] OSM-FILE...

DESCRIPTION
     Concatenates all input files and writes the result to the output file.  The
     data is not sorted in any way but strictly copied from input to output.

     Because  this  program supports several different input and output formats,
     it can be used to convert OSM files from one format into another.

     This commands reads its input file(s) only once and writes its output  file
     in  one  go so it can be streamed, ie.  it can read from STDIN and write to
     STDOUT.

     Usually this is not the right command to merge  two  or  more  typical  OSM
     files, see osmium merge for that.

OPTIONS
     -c, --clean=ATTR
	    Clean the attribute (version, timestamp, changeset, uid, user), from
	    the  data before writing it out again.  The attribute will be set to
	    0 (the user will be set to the empty string).  This  option  can  be
	    given  multiple times.  Depending on the output format these attrib-
	    utes might show up as 0 or not show up at all.

     -t, --object-type=TYPE
	    Read only objects of given type (node,  way,  relation,  changeset).
	    By	default  all  types are read.  This option can be given multiple
	    times.

     --buffer-data
	    Read all input files into memory and only then  write  out	all  the
	    data.   This  will need a lot of memory and is usually slower than a
	    normal copy.  Used for timing the reading and  writing  phase  sepa-
	    rately.

COMMON OPTIONS
     -h, --help
	    Show usage help.

     -v, --verbose
	    Set verbose mode.  The program will output information about what it
	    is doing to STDERR.

     --progress
	    Show progress bar.	Usually a progress bar is only displayed if STD-
	    OUT  and STDERR are detected to be TTY.  With this option a progress
	    bar is always shown.  Note that a progress bar will never  be  shown
	    when reading from STDIN or a pipe.

     --no-progress
	    Do	not  show  progress bar.  Usually a progress bar is displayed if
	    STDOUT and STDERR are detected to be a TTY.  With  this  option  the
	    progress  bar is suppressed.  Note that a progress bar will never be
	    shown when reading from STDIN or a pipe.

INPUT OPTIONS
     -F, --input-format=FORMAT
	    The format of the input file(s).  Can be used to set the input  for-
	    mat  if  it  can't be autodetected from the file name(s).  This will
	    set the format for all input files, there is no way to set the  for-
	    mat  for  some  input files only.  See osmium-file-formats(5) or the
	    libosmium manual for details.

OUTPUT OPTIONS
     -f, --output-format=FORMAT
	    The format of the output file.  Can be used to set the  output  file
	    format  if	it can't be autodetected from the output file name.  See
	    osmium-file-formats(5) or the libosmium manual for details.

     --fsync
	    Call fsync after writing the output file to force  flushing  buffers
	    to disk.

     --generator=NAME
	    The  name and version of the program generating the output file.  It
	    will be added to the header of the output  file.   Default	is  "os-
	    mium/" and the version of osmium.

     -o, --output=FILE
	    Name of the output file.  Default is `-' (STDOUT).

     -O, --overwrite
	    Allow  an  existing  output file to be overwritten.  Normally osmium
	    will refuse to write over an existing file.

     --output-header=OPTION=VALUE
	    Add output header option.  This command line option can be used mul-
	    tiple times for different OPTIONs.	See the osmium-output-headers(5)
	    man page for a list of available header options.  For some	commands
	    you  can  use the special format "OPTION!" (ie.  an exclamation mark
	    after the OPTION and no value set) to set the value to the	same  as
	    in the input file.

DIAGNOSTICS
     osmium cat exits with exit code

     0	    if everything went alright,

     1	    if there was an error processing the data, or

     2	    if there was a problem with the command line arguments.

MEMORY USAGE
     osmium  cat does all its work on the fly and doesn't keep much data in main
     memory.

EXAMPLES
     Convert a PBF file to a compressed XML file:

	    osmium cat -o out.osm.bz2 in.osm.pbf

     Concatenate all change files in the `changes' directory into one:

	    osmium cat -o all-changes.osc.gz changes/*.osc.gz

     Copy nodes and ways from source to destination file:

	    osmium cat -o dest.osm.pbf source.osm.pbf -t node -t way

     Remove changeset, uid, and user from a file to protect personal data:

	    osmium cat -c changeset -c uid -c user -o cleaned.osm.pbf data.osm.pbf

SEE ALSO
     * osmium(1), osmium-file-formats(5),  osmium-merge(1),  osmium-output-head-
       ers(5)

     * Osmium website

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (C) 2013-2026 Jochen Topf <jochen@topf.org>.

     License   GPLv3+:	 GNU   GPL   version  3  or  later  <https://gnu.org/li-
     censes/gpl.html>.	This is free software: you are free to change and redis-
     tribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

CONTACT
     If you  have  any	questions  or  want  to  report  a  bug,  please  go  to
     https://osmcode.org/contact.html

AUTHORS
     Jochen Topf <jochen@topf.org>.

				     1.19.0			   OSMIUM-CAT(1)

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