Re: [Zim-wiki] Call for user cases ?

2012-03-02 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
Am 02.03.2012 08:53, schrieb Dotan Cohen: This bug has a real-life example: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/585300 Dotan, I think the problem is that what you are labeling a data loss issue is no data loss issue at all. In your example, the data is displayed without the **, because these

Re: [Zim-wiki] howto strip metadata header

2012-03-02 Thread Adam Porter
This will process a directory tree and remove the first 4 lines of each file. I did a quick test on a copy of my tree, but please make sure to back up your data first, and if it blows up, it's your fault. :) #! /usr/bin/env python # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or

Re: [Zim-wiki] howto strip metadata header

2012-03-02 Thread Adam Porter
Of course, then I remembered that old adage, Those who don't know Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly. :) $ find . -iname *.txt | while read f; do tail -n +5 $f | cat $f; done On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 08:47, Adam Porter a...@alphapapa.net wrote: This will process a directory tree and remove

Re: [Zim-wiki] Call for user cases ?

2012-03-02 Thread hansbkk
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Possibly, and I appreciate your telling me that. I don't see where I have been forceful but I'm sure that you're right. I am certainly no diplomat! It's quite possible to be fully honest and brutal about objective facts,

Re: [Zim-wiki] howto strip metadata header

2012-03-02 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Adam Porter a...@alphapapa.net wrote: This will process a directory tree and remove the first 4 lines of each file. I did a quick test on a copy of my tree, but please make sure to back up your data first, and if it blows up, it's your fault. You might want