Unix command-line tools to edit SharePoint site?

[Kurt Buff]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:
> Kurt Buff wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Kelly Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I begrudgingly use a Windows SharePoint server at a customer's request.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to automate (command-line) updating and creating documents,
>>>> lists, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a Unix tool that does this?
>>>>
>>>> I know SharePoint has an "API", which basically spoofs the GET/POST
>>>> calls that your browser would make(?).
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone written a Unix command-line tool (or Perl module, etc) that
>>>> abstracts this?
>>>
>>> Is this what you want?
>>>
>>> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>> Chris
>>
>> If you want to use some/many/most of the core utils on Windows, you'll
>> be much better off with http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net
>>
>> unxutils seems pretty moribund, and I have not been successful
>> downloading the updates from that site for a while.
>>
>> Kurt
>
> I'll have a look at these, thanks for the suggestion. I have to say though
> the unxutils commands that I have used work perfectly well despite their
> age, don't require cygwin and don't do silly registry things on windows. I
> need this as I'm using them on a work computer which I am not allowed to
> install software on :P
>
> Chris

The unxutils work well, but the gnuwin32 stuff is a bit more current,
and more complete. They don't require any registry fiddling nor extra
DLLs, either, just like the unxutils stuff. I stick them in a
directory, and set my path up with that. Works well for me, anyway.


HTH,

Kurt