Wildcards, globbing and pattern matching?

[boldandbusted]

Hi again. I'm a new user of nb. I'm finding that there are "Day 2" operations that I'm doing that would be easier if I could use pattern matching mechanisms to do operations in bulk.

For example, after starting a notebook and using it for a few weeks, I'd like to organize the notes into folders. Do I have to mv each item one by one? I'd like to be able to do something like this:

$ nb mv * new-folder/

Can I do this today in nb? If not, any shell piping pattern examples that help with this would be welcome sights, too.

Thanks! :)

[boldandbusted]

Getting bit hard by this today as I'm facing a deadline, sadly. I have several dozen notes that I would like to organize into subfolders, and I think my only option is to do a rather toil-full workflow pattern of nb ls and then read the list of notes, and enter each ID into a nb mv <id> command. I'd like to specify a range of IDs like `nb mv 2-27 subfolder/'. (I tried that pattern for kicks, but it doesn't work...)

Is there a path via shell pipes? Or is a pattern with xargs my next step? Cheers! :)

P.S. Also, I don't seem to be able to get a list with just IDs with nb ls. Is there another path? Thanks!

[xwmx]

@boldandbusted I just pushed an update supporting multiple source selectors, so you can now do nb move 1 2 3 target-folder/ to move items 1, 2, and 3 into target-folder. I'll have to do globbing or id ranges in a future iteration.

[boldandbusted]

Wow, thank you! I will play with it later this evening (EST).

[borjarobert]

I believe these changes came in a commit newer than the 7.5.4 release, as I updated though brewbut can't use it. Pretty cool to be able to do that regardless! Globbing would be awesome too

[xwmx]

@borjarobert I just released version 7.5.5, which includes it. It might take about a day for the new version to get merged into homebrew-core.

[boldandbusted]

Sorry for the delay. With 7.5.5 I'm able to do 'nb mv *.md " - thank you very mych @xwmx 🍾 👏 🍾 !