Manual:PageExists.php

MediaWiki version:
1.24
Gerrit change 132695

Details

pageExists.php file is a maintenance script to report whether a page with a specific title exists. It will print out the result to standard output with a meaningful text, and will set the exit status of the script to 0 if the page exists.

This script is very useful for bash and other scripting languages where we need to work with exit status code.

Options/Arguments

Argument Description Required?
<Page title> Page title to be checked Required

Usage

php maintenance/pageExists.php "page title"


Terminal


Example echoing the exit status:

Terminal

Exit status = 0 means the page exists

Exit status = 1 means the page does NOT exist.

See also