Question

How would I run /bin/search from the command line, passing the arguments that are typically passed from the browser?

I have tried: search search="[S]tatus.*(td..td|value\=).*Open" web="all" format="$formfield(...)... ...etc etc"...

... without success. It outputs the results of view on Main/WebHome

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• TWiki version: Dec 2001
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: Solaris
• Web browser:
• Client OS:

-- CoreyFruitman - 25 Apr 2002

Answer

I just did search search="Wiki" web="all" >/tmp/tt and it worked fine on Cygwin, and would probably work with Solaris too. You may need to make sure you use single quotes if you include '$foo' within a string, of course.

-- RichardDonkin - 25 Apr 2002

Thanks.

Still, the format argument doesn't seem to work. I have tried format='$web'. Since format isn't in search, I assume that it gets passed through to another module.

Do you know how to pass that parameter from the command line?

-- CoreyFruitman - 26 Apr 2002

I tried search search="Wiki" web="all" format='$web' >/tmp/tt and it worked OK on Cygwin. Try putting some writeDebug commands in the search script to show the parameters actually received, see TWikiDebugging.

-- RichardDonkin - 27 Apr 2002

Thanks for the info, Richard. I'm not sure why search search="Wiki" web="all" format='$web' >/tmp/tt isn't working for me, but I'll try the debug messages as you suggested.

-- CoreyFruitman - 30 Apr 2002