Find and alter confluence pages that not contains ...? - Command Line Interface

Question

Hi!

I'm looking for the command to alter pages in a space that not contains the excerpt macro.

I'd like to add an empty or default excerpt.

I'm not shure if it is possible in a single command. Do i have to get a list of that pages before/as input for the storePage action?

And how to say: not contains excerpt.

Danke!

Matze

Matthias Born · Answer

Very difficult to say: NOT ;-)

"NOT excerpt" without any further search criteria...
But I think that will work (it does in confluence search): "type:page NOT excerpt"
I'll try it with your suggestions and the --search param.
TU!

Matthias Born · Answer

Thank u Bob for the quick answer.

Now i see the way to getPageSource, modify and storePage.
To find pages already have excerpt will be easy. I'll try it tomorrow.
But what's with the rest, these without? 
Have i overseen a way to negate the find result?
Do you mean i have to use sql to get these results? Or will the search parameter (confluence search syntax) do it for me?

Thank u!

Matze

Bob Swift · Answer

There are a couple of approaches:

* A script to getPageSource to a file, read the file to search for {excerpt} and if not found, update the file to include the empty {excerpt}. Then storePage with the modified file. Do this for each page in the space. I have recently used this approach a site migration and will publish a sample groovy script in the next few days.
* If the data to be added is always at the start or end of the current page and you can query the Confluence database, then it is easier - see How to automate adding text to Confluence pages