faxinfo (8)

Basic usage:

/usr/sbin/faxinfo [ -b ] [ -n ] [ -D ] file.tif [ file2.tif [...] ]

Formatting shortcuts:

/usr/sbin/faxinfo [ -C delim | -c delim | -r ] file.tif [ file2.tif ] ]

Raw formatting:

/usr/sbin/faxinfo [ -S fmt ] [ -s fmt ] [ -e fmt ] [ -E fmt ] file.tif [ file2.tif ] ]

faxinfo prints descriptive information on the standard output about a received facsimile file. For example:

\s-1/var/spool/hylafax/recvq/fax00017.tif:
    Sender: +14159657824
     Pages: 3
   Quality: Normal
      Page: North American Letter
  Received: 1996:01:19 13:51:02
TimeToRecv: 0:39
SignalRate: 14400 bit/s
DataFormat: 2-D MR\s+1
ErrCorrect: No
   CallID1: 2152345678
   CallID2: 1234

This information is typically included in the notification mail generated by the faxrcvd(8) script when a facsimile is received by \*(Fx.

-n

suppresses the printing of the filename.

-b

strips any leading directory of the filename before printing

-D

prints the actual print strings being used for debug purposes

Formatting shortcuts:

-C delim

Sets the format to a quoted CSV, shortcut to

-S '"%s"' -s ',"' -e '"' -E '\n'

-c delim

Sets the format to a CSV, shortcut to:

-S '%s' -s ',' -e '' -E '\n'

-r

Sets the format to raw values, shortcut to:

-S '' -s '' -e '\n' -E ''

Raw formating:

-S fmt

used to start each fax, it is passed one parameter, the fax file name

-s fmt

used to start each field, it is passed one parameter, the field name

-e fmt

used to end each field, it is passed one parameter, the field name

-E fmt

used to end each fax, it is passed one parameter, the fax file name

The information that faxinfo prints is obtained from the tags stored in the TIFF image that is written by the \*(Fx software. If faxinfo is presented with an invalid TIFF image it may print uninteresting information. Similarly if a TIFF image that was not written by \*(Fx is supplied as an argument then only partial information may be printed–this is because \*(Fx stores certain information in private tags that other TIFF writers may not emit.

Use of the raw fmt options to allow you to directly control the print format strings used when formating the output. These format strings are passed directly to printf, with basic \<char> sequences being interpreted, including \n, \r, and \t, and can be used to make the faxinfo output conform to specific requirements, like peculiar CVS, tables, HTML, etc.

The order of the options is important. They are parsed from first to last, so any later options will override settings of previous ones.

faxinfo return 0 on success and 1 if the file passed as argument is not valid.

hylafax-server(5), faxrcvd(8), faxgetty(8)