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austin
Frequent Contributor
5 years ago

Setting a multi-line `notesPlain` value on an edited item

This is sort of two requests in one. I’m currently using op 1.10.3. When I edit a document ( op edit document UUID FILE --filename TARGETFILE --title TARGETFILE --account ACCOUNT ) any existing ...
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austin
Frequent Contributor
5 years ago

Regarding editing the notesPlain field, are you currently using a command like op edit item notesPlain='my notes\nwith newlines\n' to accomplish this?

That’s one of two things that happens. If, instead, you do the following:

sh
$ cat >notes <<EOS
my notes
with newlines
EOS
$ op edit item <docItemUUID> notesPlain="$(cat notes)"

Then I’m only seeing with newlines. (I actually use fish, so how certain things work is a little different.)

There’s a Unix convention that could be used here: op edit item UUID notesPlain=@notes where @notes indicates that the contents of notes should be read. Not sure how easy that would be, and it is a little on the obscure side (although heavily used by cURL and a few other tools).