Is there a simple Ruby script somewhere that can be easily tweaked to do a search and replace in all posts? I’ve migrated from MyBB and there are some tiny formatting tweaks that need to be made, e.g. replace [hr] with ----------, or convert the quote lines . I’m very new to Ruby (basically learned …

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Batch processing to search and replace in all posts

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dandv (Dan Dascalescu) October 3, 2015, 1:20am 5

Authors of import plugins (e.g. @Sander78’s Facebook import) should be able to crank/extract one out relatively quickly.

Alternatively, I’ve released a Node.js script that uses the API to do search&replace:

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Batch processing to search and replace in all posts

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