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AppendWikiPage

appendWikiPage is a bash script that will take an email message (or any other file piped into it), and create a PmWiki page. In combination with procmail, it will allow you to setup a special email address to which you can send information that you'd like to have included in your PmWiki, without having to create the page manually.

Download the script here.

Setup

• Copy the downloaded file, appendWikiPage, somewhere convenient. I keep mine in my ~/bin directory.
• Copy the program pmwe from the pmwiki/scripts directory, to a location in your $PATH. Verify that pmwe works by running it and editing a wiki page. Typing "pmwe", from the command line, should allow you to edit the Main.WikiSandbox page located at http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Main/WikiSandbox.
• Verify that the following programs are available on your system, somewhere in your $PATH:

      echo, grep, & sed

• Edit the following variable in appendWikiPage:

• Add the following receipe to your .procmailrc:

      
      # send 'wiki' files to wiki
      :0                                 
      * ^TOappendWikiPage@mydomain.com
      | /home/tom/bin/appendWikiPage 

• You'll need to setup the proper alias in your MTA to forward any mail that is sent to appendWikiPage@mydomain.com (for example) to your regular email address (so that the procmail receipe will be executed). Alternately, setup a new user named appendWikipage and put the procmail recipe there.
• Setup is complete.

Usage:

A WikiPage will be created from any mail sent to appendWikiPage@mydomain.com. The title of Group.Page will be determined by the following markup, containing within the email message itself:

• If the WikiPage already exists, the selected text is appended to the end of the existing page.

Example markup

append:Main.LinuxTipsTricks
This paragraph will be appended to the page Main.LinuxTipsTricks. If the page doesn't yet exist, it will be created.
append:

append:Dogs.ColliesAreFun
This is another paragraph in the same email message, regarding a different subject. It will be saved to the page Dogs.ColliesAreFun.
append:

Questions/suggestions

• Feel free to send email to tom@hisword.net.

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