[pmwiki-users] Tool to bulk-edit pages?

[Peter Bowers]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Sonja Elen Kisa <sonja at kisa.ca> wrote:

> Is there a tool I can use to bulk-edit pages in PMwiki following a
> pattern and drawing content from consistently labelled text files I
> already have? Should I do it by interacting with the DB, i.e. a DB
> tool? Or some other approach?
>
> Cookbook/WikiSh has potential to make this a pretty easy job...

The simplest case (just copying the text from the textfiles directly into
pages in MyGroup) might look like this:

for i in TEXTFILE--path/to/*.txt
do
   set -s pagename = "`basename ${i}`"
   cat TEXTFILE--${i} >MyGroup.${pagename}
done

-Peter
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