Front Matter Manipulator

Getting Started

This utility can be used as a Command Line Interface, or as an import in your scripts.

It has two primary uses:

• Parsing one or many files to discover the content model
• Updating the content model of one or many files

This is done through the following commands:

• fields: finds all fields in specified files
• values: finds all values for specified fields in specified files
• update: update the value for specified field in specified files
• rename: update the name of specified field in specified files
• drop: delete the specified fields from the specified files
• convert: convert any field to an array

Installation

Install CLI

Run the following command:

npm install -g front-matter-manipulator

Install in current directory for use in scripts

npm install front-matter-manipulator --save-dev

CLI (Command Line Interface)

Front Matter Manipulator can be used on the command line to perform operations on fields.

See the documentation for each action:

• Fields
• Values
• Update
• Rename
• Drop
• Convert

Usage in node scripts/packages

Front Matter Manipulator can be used on in javascript files to perform advanced parsing or manipulation of fields.

See the documentation for each action:

• Fields
• Values
• Update
• Rename
• Drop
• Convert