Comments on: Healing my old #ossasepia log links

By: Little by little, a little less retarded. « Dorion Mode

Little by little, a little less retarded. « Dorion Mode — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 21:22:23 +0000

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By: Jacob Welsh

Jacob Welsh — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 05:09:36 +0000

Approximate (conservative) approach to that, now avoiding the "awk" overkill for perhaps less confusing quoting:

cat ossapub-simp.txt eulorapub-simp.txt | while read old new; do
	echo "update posts set post_content=replace(post_content, '<a href=\"http://$old', '<a href=\"http://$new');"
	echo "update comments set comment_content=replace(comment_content, '<a href=\"http://$old', '<a href=\"http://$new');"
done >replacements.sql

This done, I found the linked example was in fact the only instance among my comments (that is, of raw URLs not touched by the above replacements), and there it was mp-wp making the links clickable rather than any markup I'd put in the comments themselves, so I patched them up manually.

By: Jacob Welsh

Jacob Welsh — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 04:13:46 +0000

Thanks @Diana Coman, good point and it had popped into my head at some point in the process but was forgotten. One dodgy case that comes up when I try it - though nothing to do with comments per se - is the bridged logs where it seems to me preferable to replace only the final hrefs rather than altering URLs in the record of what was said (because what services we were using at the time *is* a part of the history after all).

By: Diana Coman

Diana Coman — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:46:16 +0000

Perhaps not an issue for Fixpoint but for completeness, if you set out to replace the links, you might want to at least look as well at the post_comments table not just at post_content (ie for any links that might appear in the comments rather than in an article's content).