Re: [Gramps-users] multiple remove?

[Alex R. <sh...@gr...>]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 21:25 -0400, Malcolm Litchfield wrote:
> A great idea, but I'm having trouble executing it. gunzip says that it
> doesn't recognize the suffix and doesn't do anything.

gunzip -c data.gramps > data.xml
then grep or manually edit.

Or:
zgrep -v "blah" data.gramps


That said, I would not edit XML this way.
The reason is, the event is referenced in person/family/etc record.
So removing the event and leaving the reference will make database
inconsistent. Maybe check and repair will fix them all.

But if your data came from gedcom, it would be easier
to remove the _UID lines from gedcom prior to import.

Alex

>  The archive manager that comes with Ubuntu doesn't recognize the file
> and can't open the archive. I found one option that exported to an XML
> file without archiving, but then gedit couldn't recognize the
> character set. I've tried a variety of permutations but with no luck.
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm taking each time the default name
> that GRAMPS suggests for the export.=20
>=20
> (And thanks for the patience with a relatively newbie to Ubuntu)
>=20
> Malcolm
>=20
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> On 7/5/07, St=C3=A9phane Charette <ste...@gm...> wrote:
>         From within Gramps, export to XML then use a plain text editor
>         or a=20
>         combination of "grep -v" to filter the output?
>        =20
>         (The XML output is actually gzip'd, so you need to gunzip
>         first to
>         make sense of the xml file.)
>        =20
>         St=C3=A9phane Charette
>        =20
>        =20
>         On 7/4/07, Malcolm Litchfield < m...@li...> wrote:
>         > Importing my data from PAF seemed to generate a bunch of
>         bogus events, some=20
>         > of the type _UID followed by a number, and some of the type
>         None but with=20
>         > such enigmatic descriptions as
>         > 28840E8D76579E41A4AB09B6A10DF30AAC0F. I don't think I'm
>         > missing any real events, so I'd like to get rid of these
>         bogus events. Is
>         > there a way to delete all the records that meet a certain
>         criteria? I can=20
>         > easily create a filter to show these events, but then I'm
>         removing them one
>         > at a time. There are easily a thousand of these events, and
>         removing them
>         > one by one is tedious, to say the least.

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Alexander Roitman   http://gramps-project.org