Section 1 · User commands

fc-query.1

Package: fontconfig

FC-QUERY

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
RETURN CODES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR


NAME

fc-query − query font files

SYNOPSIS

fc-query [ -Vh ]

[ [ -b ] [ —ignore-blanks ] ] [ [ -i index ] [ —index index ] ] [ [ -f format ] [ —format format ] ] [ —version ] [ —help ] font-file…

DESCRIPTION

fc-query queries font-file(s) using the normal fontconfig rules and prints out font pattern for each face found. If —index is given, only one face of each file is queried, otherwise all faces are queried.

OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (‘-’). A summary of options is included below.

-bIgnore blanks to compute languages
-iOnly query face indexed index of each file.
-fFormat output according to the format specifier format.
-VShow version of the program and exit.
-hShow summary of options.

font-file

Query font-file for font faces.

RETURN CODES

fc-query returns error code 0 for successful parsing, or 1 if any errors occurred or if at least one font face could not be opened.

SEE ALSO

fc-scan(1) FcFreeTypeQuery(3) FcPatternFormat(3) fc-cat(1) fc-cache(1) fc-list(1) fc-match(1) fc-pattern(1)

The fontconfig user’s guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.

AUTHOR

This manual page was updated by Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>.