Compare ways to move Confluence pages

Shell for Confluence provides familiar commands such as ls, cd, find, tree, mv, cp, and rm. You can move multiple named pages within the same space. Use several argv sources, * / ? in the last segment of each source path on mv / cp, or pipe paths from find (including -mtime / -prune or -name; at most 100 sources). ls -l shows last-update details; ls --format csv is the machine-readable listing. tree prints an ASCII page tree (-L / --maxdepth; default depth 3). attach and less cover page attachments and long listings.

On first open, the console shows Try tips for tree, find -mtime, and ls --format csv.

When to use Shell

You prefer commands such as ls / ls -l / ls --format csv, cd, find (-mtime / -prune), tree, and mv.
You want to find or filter pages, then mv or cp them in the same space (including pipes into grep / head / tail / wc / sort, and into mv / cp / chmod).
You need to search page content in a page tree with find … -exec grep PATTERN.
You want tab completion (including command names and theme values), history, ^old^new, and short names via alias / unalias (stored in this browser only).
You want to inspect or restore page versions with checkout / restore.
You want to adjust explicit page restrictions via chmod. It is not a space-permission admin UI or a bulk migrator.
Listing: Shell for Confluence (Kenputer). Free.

Recipes: Use cases.

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When to use another method

Need	Path
A handful of pages	Native hierarchy drag, or page Move.
Title-pattern move in the same space (up to 100)	Shell: `mv Draft* DEST` or `find -name PATTERN \| mv DEST` (preview with `-n`).
More than 100 pages, or a different space	REST `PUT /wiki/rest/api/content/{id}` with `ancestors: [{id: newParent}]` and the next version number. Documented in Move multiple pages to another parent page.
Copy an entire tree then delete extras	Copy Page Tree (named in that thread’s 2017 Atlassian reply), not Shell.
Change title/body text or URLs	Find & Replace app (not Shell)
Spreadsheet multi-select / copy entire subtree / archive	Pages Manager–class GUI, or native / REST
Search once, then bulk-move to another space	Easy Bulk–class workbench, or REST — not Shell

What Shell does not do

Bulk tree migrator or filtered multi-select Bulk panel UI for hundreds of pages (CLI globs, multi-source mv / cp, and find | mv are fine up to 100 sources).
Cross-space bulk move UI.
Attachment upload or purge (list / trash / rename via attach only).

Canonical docs path: shell-for-confluence-cloud. Guide: https://documents.test-perspective.com/shell-for-confluence-cloud/guide-for-users/ FAQ: https://documents.test-perspective.com/shell-for-confluence-cloud/faq/

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