Use cases

These recipes show how to combine Shell commands for common Confluence work. Each page walks through a scenario, the commands to run, and the limits that apply.

• Reorganize pages — rename, copy, and move pages in the same space, including find -name pipes into mv / cp

• Search and audit content — list a page tree, count pages, and search titles or page bodies

• Manage page restrictions — list and change explicit view / edit restrictions with chmod

• Recover previous versions — list history and restore a prior version with checkout / restore

• Work faster — aliases, ^old^new, tab completion, and quoting

• Export page list as CSV — machine-readable children with ls --format csv (RFC 4180); richer ls -l for human columns

• Find pages not updated recently — stale pages by last update with find -mtime; optional -prune before same-space mv -n (max 100)

• Find pages by name — find -name demo: youtu.be/pSerR_MbejE

• List page attachments — attach ls demo: youtu.be/DetSU-Tl2Dc

• List with details (ls -l) — demo: youtu.be/jq0H0iubnDQ

• Page output with less — demo: youtu.be/RlaeiJ2-kNc

• Shell theme — theme demo: youtu.be/ML2gzbiiHQ0

• Move selected Confluence pages to another parent — find by name or last update, then same-space mv to another parent (max 100)

• Show a space as a page tree — hierarchy with tree / tree -L 2 (visual listing only)

• Space hygiene ops — see tree, find stale with find -mtime / -prune, export with ls --format csv, then same-space mv (max 100)

For command syntax, see the command reference. For boundaries, see Limitations.