1ikiwiki-calendar(1) General Commands Manual ikiwiki-calendar(1)
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6 ikiwiki-calendar - create calendar archive pages
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9 ikiwiki-calendar [-f] your.setup [pagespec] [startyear [endyear]]
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12 ikiwiki-calendar creates pages that use the ikiwiki/directive/calendar
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16 You must specify the setup file for your wiki. The pages will be cre‐
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18 calendar plugin (default "archives").
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20 To control which pages are included on the calendars, a ikiwiki/Page‐
21 Spec can be specified. The default is all pages, or the pages specified
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23 also be specified on the command line. To limit it to only posts in a
24 blog, use something like "posts/* and !*/Discussion".
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26 It defaults to creating calendar pages for the current year. If you
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30 Existing pages will not be overwritten by this command by default. Use
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34 While this command only needs to be run once a year to update the ar‐
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39 An example crontab:
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41 0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup 'posts/* and !*/Discussion'
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44 This command uses two templates to generate the pages, calendar‐
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48 Most of the goals of this command can be replaced by setting up calen‐
49 dar_autocreate setup option (of plugin plugins/calendar), and running
50 ikiwiki --setup you.setup. The only thing that ikiwiki-calendar can do
51 and that ikiwiki cannot is forcing page generation (using -f switch).
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54 Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>
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56 ikiwiki-calendar(1)