I could have been clearer; I meant the Dendron CLI. You could generate the frontmatter yourself as SeriousBug just suggested. Another option would be to use dendron's note lookup from the CLI. something like

dendron note lookup --quiet --wsRoot "$DENDRON_WORKSPACE" --attach --useLocalEngine --enginePort 4040 --query "$NOTE"

in a shellscript. It would generate the frontmatter for you.

dendron note lookup --quiet --attach --useLocalEngine --enginePort 4040 --query "testnote" dendron note note related commands Positionals: cmd a command to run [string] [required] [choices: "lookup", "delete"] Options: --version Show version number [boolean] --help Show help [boolean] --wsRoot location of workspace --vault name of vault --quiet don't print output to stdout --enginePort If set, connect to to running engine. If not set, create new instance of Dendron Engine --attach Use existing engine instead of spawning a new one --useLocalEngine If set, use in memory engine instead of connecting to a server [boolean] --query the query to run [string] --output format to output in [string] [choices: "json", "md_gfm", "md_dendron"] [default: "json"] TypeError: cb is not a function at Object.close (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@dendronhq/dendron-cli/lib/src/commands/utils.js:25:20) at NoteCLICommand.execute (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@dendronhq/dendron-cli/lib/src/commands/notes.js:133:29) at Object.CLICommand.eval [as handler] (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@dendronhq/dendron-cli/lib/src/commands/base.js:58:36) I am getting above error message. running command in root vault

I can reproduce this - actually, I've encountered this error message in my daily use as well

ah let me check

it would be good to nip this in the bud in any case

so if i am inside vault dir , i dont have to specify wsRoot is that right

yes, you shouldn't have to

one moment

you did

and you can't find testnote.md in the vault?

no

it's working in my test vault - can you tell me what you get if you just run

dendron note lookup --query "testfoo"

Error: need to specify vault at checkQueryAndVault (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@dendronhq/dendron-cli/lib/src/commands/notes.js:30:15) at NoteCLICommand.execute (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@dendronhq/dendron-cli/lib/src/commands/notes.js:73:46) at Object.CLICommand.eval [as handler] (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@dendronhq/dendron-cli/lib/src/commands/base.js:58:36) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5) ```

do you have multiple vaults in your workspace?

yes

ah

it worked now

something like

dendron note lookup --query "note-in-vault2" --vault vault2

it worked  dendron note lookup --query "testfoo" --vault "vault"

from what I can see

awesome thank you so much

sure thing

i was looking for way to dynamic generate markdown tasks from taskwarrior , this will help to increase my productivity 🙂

yeah, it's handy 😁

cheers

typically, if I know the name of the file created, I like to just pipe it in

got it

it's the directory that has

dendron.yml

directly under it

i am new to linux , not able to figure out pipe to

dendron note lookup

command and append the text below frontmatter. any tips will help

You wouldn't pipe to the command, but rather to the file that was created. something like:

sh
#!/bin/sh
[...]
dendron note lookup --vault "$DENDRON_VAULT" --wsRoot "$DENDRON_WS" --query "$NOTE" --quiet"
echo "text to be piped" >> ${DENDRON_VAULT}/${NOTE}.md