NAME
    padconsole - manage your etherpad from the console

SYNOPSIS
    padconsole [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION
    Provides a console to manage an etherpad instance. Get infos about pads,
    delete them, etc.

           --help                      prints a help message and exit

           --version                   prints version and exit

           -e http://pad.example.com   URL of the etherpad instance

           -k secretPadApiKey          API key for the etherpad instance

           -u padUserLogin             username for the etherpad instance, if needed

           -p padUserPassword          password for the etherpad instance

           -c /path/to/config/file     use a different config file than \$XDG_HOME_DIR/padconsolerc or ~/.config/padconsolerc

COMMANDS
    Once the padconsole is launched, you can use this commands:

           help                 : print this message

           exit                 : exit program

           count                : print the number of existing pads

           list                 : list all the existing pads (20 items per page)

           search <PATTERN>     : print the list of the pads which name matches the pattern (Perl regex) (20 items per page)

           delete <pad1> <pad2> : delete the pads pad1 pad2 (have to be separated by space)

           text <pad> [rev]     : print the pad content, at the revision [rev] if defined

           revcount <pad>       : print the number of revisions of a pad

           authors <pad>        : print the name of the differents authors who wrote on the pad

           infos <pad>          : print multiple informations about the pad

           writeconf            : write the configuration to $config_file

           use <alias>          : change connection to the etherpad instance which alias is <alias>

           alist                : print all the configured etherpads aliases

           current              : print configuration informations about the current etherpad instance

CONFIGURATION FILE
    You can write it (that a simple YAML file), or launch padconsole with
    valid etherpad informations (options *-e*, *-k* and possibly *-u* and
    *-p*) and then use the *writeconf* command.

    If you want to add instances, you can write them in the configuration
    file or launch padconsole with the informations and use *writeconf*, it
    will push the new instance in the configuration file.

        ---
        instances:
          beta:
            url: http://pad1.example.com
            key: KLJfdskldJKLjkfds634lnfdsqxdsnjk5
            passwd: ~
            user: ~
          lite:
            url: http://pad2.example.com
            key: qSDHlfknsuIH290oitjepz6fqd3jeuzi
            passwd: myuser
            user: mypasswd

INSTALLATION
    The better way to install it is by CPAN:

        cpan App::padconsole

    You can install it manually:

        wget https://github.com/ldidry/padconsole/archive/master.zip -O padconsole.zip
        unzip padconsole.zip
        cd padconsole-master
        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

BUGS and SUPPORT
           You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

               perldoc padconsole

           Bugs and feature requests will be tracked at github:

               https://github.com/ldidry/padconsole/issues/

           The latest source code can be browsed and fetched at:

               https://github.com/ldidry/padconsole
               git clone git://github.com/ldidry/padconsole.git

           You can also look for information at:

               RT: CPAN's request tracker
               http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=padconsole

               AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
               http://annocpan.org/dist/padconsole

               CPAN Ratings
               http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/padconsole

               Search CPAN
               http://search.cpan.org/dist/padconsole

AUTHOR
               Luc DIDRY
               CPAN ID: LDIDRY
               ldidry@cpan.org
               http://www.fiat-tux.fr/

COPYRIGHT
           This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

           The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

SEE ALSO
           L<Etherpad::API>, L<https://github.com/ldidry/etherpad-admin>