[pmwiki-users] Change the content of many pages at a time

[Simon]

For things like this I simply go into the wiki.d directory and use my
favourite editor for multiple file changes (WeaverSlave) and manually find
and replace on the files.(Course you could take a backup first).


2008/12/6 kirpi at kirpi.it <kirpi at kirpi.it>

> Pmwiki is so nice that we use it extensively, really.
> Now, one may need to make bulk changes to the content of all/many
> pages at a time. This is particularly true now that, thanks to PTVs,
> we can use pmwiki pages to record fields like "Date_of_birth:
> 2009/10/09".
>
> Imagine you have 300 pages in a Friends group, one per friend, and
> each page contains:
>
>    * Name: xxx
>    * Surname: xxx
>    * Date_of_birht: xxx
>    * Email: xxx
>
> What if I want to correct "Date_of_birht" to "Date_of_birth" to all
> the 300 pages?
> And, what if I want to add a "Sex:" variable just below "Surname:"?
>
> I've been told that there are unix tools like awk[1] which can make
> the trick but, as far as my experience goes and despite nice pages
> like "Become an expert in 60 minutes", it turns out that it may takes
> ages before you can use awk: you have to *first* study Regular
> Expressions[2] (which are a very complicated beast and may take weeks
> to master), and later approach awk itself.
>
> I personally found Emacs to be a friendlier choice, although not
> necessarily easy to use[3].
> I just started Cookbook/BulkReplace[4], but I'm surely not able to
> write about technical subjects.
>
> My questions are:
> a) Does anybody want/is_able to contribute his/her knowledge to the
> Cookbook/BulkReplace page, in order to provide pmwiki users with
> useful/practical advices on the matter?
> b) Does anybody know of a way to use php for such a purpose, so that a
> general script could be made into a recipe?
>
>
> Luigi
>
>
> ----
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK
> [2] http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/RegularExpressions thanks to
> Joachim Durchholz
> [3] I do not know how to write "line break"
> [4] http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/BulkReplace
>
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