[pmwiki-users] How to parse text files?

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On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Mike Turco <mike at miketurco.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to parse the content from those files? I'm not worried
> about formatting, and if I have to do a little cleanup work by hand I
> can live with that.

It's dead easy if you know a little unix cli:

grep -E '^text=' Main.HomePage | sed -e 's/%3c/</g' -e 's/%0a/\n/g' -e
's/%25/%/g' > Main.HomePage.txt

Quite happily, Pm designed PmWiki as text based file storage! See
also: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PageFileFormat