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Suggestion to change
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0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup "posts/* and !*/Discussion"
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0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup 'posts/* and !*/Discussion'
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I ran into (for me) unexpected behaviour with double quotes, since when I tried it in the interactive shell, the "!" made it fail ([history expansion](http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#echo_.22Hello_World.21.22)). I thought "aha, it should be escaped!", did so, and did not get any error messages, but it no longer functioned as intended (as per the earlier linked page).
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The latter line will work everywhere, not just in environments without history expansion. I think trying a command manually before putting it into crontab is common, and this would avoid the possible user issue I ran into.
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I wonder what this program (ikiwiki-calendar) is useful for. Would not it be simpler to have the [[calendar|ikiwiki/directive/calendar]] directive generate the `archive_base/year/month.mdwn` files on the fly, as are the tag pages generated by the [[tag|plugins/tag]] plugin? This solution would have the advantage of automatically generating the right calendar pages, instead of having to tell ikiwiki-calendar which years to take into account.
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Using this solution would mean to have the pagespec stored somewhere in the configuration. But this is already the case, as the pagespec used by [[ikiwiki-calendar]] is either set in the configuration file of the wiki, or in the crontab or whatever script used to call ikiwiki-calendar.
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Having done this, the only purpose of ikiwiki-calendar would be to re-generate the wiki on a daily (or whatever frequency) basis, which can be done using ikiwiki instead of ikiwiki-calendar.
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Did I miss something? If I am right, I offer to write the necessary patch, copied and adapted from the tag plugin, to generate the pages `archive_base/year/month.mdwn` on the fly.
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-- Spalax
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> Good spotting, `ikiwiki-calendar` predates the `add_autofile` API used to
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> autocreate tag pages and was bolted in as an easy way to create calendar
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> pages.
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> It would be possible to do that inside the caneldar plugin now. Although
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> some command would still need to be run on a daily (or weekly, or
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> monthly, or yearly..) basis to have it wake up and make the new calendar
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> pages and update the displayed current day from calendar directives.
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> That last is, arguably, the real point of running ikiwiki-calendar in
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> a cron job. Of course all it really does is run `ikiwiki -setup foo
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> -refresh`. --[[Joey]]
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