Migrating existing Joomla! site for Canadian musician, Art Bergmann, to Jekyll rendered static site.

Bulk rename filenames in directory

qmv -A --format=destination-only

http://www.nongnu.org/renameutils/

Add numbers to start of each line of text

%!nl -nrz -w2 -s'-'

Remove Joomla! importer front matter from lyrics pages

sed -i '4,8d' */*/lyrics/*.markdown

Change lyric pages' layouts to "page"

sed -i 's/layout: post/layout: page/g' */*/lyrics/*.markdown

Remove all remaining front matter and style title for lyrics

sed -i '1,2d;s/title: /##/;4d' */*/lyrics/*.markdown

Include lyrics in album page

ls -c lyrics/*.markdown | sort | awk '{print "{% include_relative " $0 " %}"}' >> index.markdown

Break monolithic one line articles on <br /> tag

:%s/<br \/>/^M/g

Note: The ^M is generated by CTRL-V + RETURN

Strip HTML tags

:%s/<[^>]*>//g

Trailing two spaces for markdown <br />

:%s/$/  /g

Remove non-breaking spaces that occupy a line

%s/^ $//g

Remove smart double-quotes

:%s/”\|“/\"/g

Remove smart single-quotes

:%s/’\|‘/\'/g

###Tips

1. These will be stored in vim's history, so cycle through them using the up/down arrow after entering command mode.
2. Record a macro on the first page by pressing 'q' followed by any letter (name of macro); then press 'q' when finished recording; and use the macro by pressing '@' followed by the letter.

Change </div><div> combinations to <br />

:%s/<\/div><div>/<br \/>/g

Break monolithic one line articles on <br /> tag

:%s/<br \/>/^M/g

Strip HTML tags

:%s/<[^>]*>//g

sed -i '2d; 3s/./\L&/g; 4,8d; 9 i\article_author: \narticle_publication: ' */*/_posts/*.markdown