wikilink uid

Insert wikilink (UID only)

wikilink-uid.kmmacros

Inserts a [[wikilink]] to a note identified using a list search. Given a target note 202007271447 Note Title.txt, it will output: [[202007271447]]

The macro expects UIDs in the form of 12-digit numbers, and will only recognise notes with such UIDs in their names.

The macro recursively searches a specified directory for any file containing a UID, which need not be notes. (I use it to fetch the UIDs of files outside the Zettelkästen, alongside assign-finder and open.)

With thanks to Zettelkasten.de forum users kaidoh and Will for their macros, and Stéphane Chazelas for this StackExchange answer.

Invoked Shell Script

#!/usr/bin/env zsh -f

cd "$KMVAR_Instance_Documents_Directory"

# List all files with names containing a string of 12 digits.
print -rC1 -- **/*[:0-9:][:0-9:][:0-9:][:0-9:][:0-9:][:0-9:][:0-9:][:0-9:][:0-9:][:0-9:][:0-9:][:0-9:]*(N-om:t:r)

#!/usr/bin/env zsh -f

# Print the portion of the filename which is a string of 12 digits.
if [[ "$KMVAR_Instance_Target_File" =~ [0-9]{12} ]]; then
	echo "$MATCH"
fi

Areas for Improvement

• Folder names containing a dot are mistakenly truncated at the dot.

Changelog

Version	Date	Changes
1.00	2020-07-27	Initial commit