Homebrew Question NSP metadata

[erikas]

i was scripting with bash to make myself a personalized backup manager. The problem is i currently rely on file names to identify what a file contains. This is an issue for me because i recently found out that filenames are unreliable and its easy to name something with the wrong title id. Is there any way to read the file itself and get its metadata, like game title, version and title ID? I know it's possible because switch backup manager does it, but i don't know how.

 

[hippy dave]

LibHac has functions to parse Switch files for that kind of info. I didn't check to see if the included hactoolnet command can do what you want in a script, but give it a look, otherwise you'd maybe have to write something yourself.