How to copy a space using Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)

This article explains how to copy a space in the same instance using the Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI) app.

Instructions

Use the copySpace action to copy a space with space and newSpace as required parameters    

Execute the following action copies the current space, CLI, to new space, COPYCLI:

--action copySpace --space "CLI" --newSpace "COPYCLI" --name "CopySpace_CLI" --description "Creation of CopySpace_CLI" --copyBlogs --copyAttachments --copyLabels --copyComments --copyPermissions --continue

The result of the given action is as follows:

• Output on the terminal:
  

  Output on the terminal:

  --action copySpace --space "CLI" --newSpace "COPYCLI" --name "CopySpace_CLI" --description "Creation of CopySpace_CLI" --copyBlogs --copyAttachments --copyLabels --copyComments --copyPermissions --continue
  
  
  Space added with key COPYCLI, name 'CopySpace_CLI', and url http://acli2.examplegear.com/display/COPYCLI.
  3 space permissions copied from space CLI to space COPYCLI. 
  Page 'Confluence_CLI Home' copied to 'Confluence_CLI Home' in COPYCLI.
  Page 'Blogging tutorial' copied to 'Blogging tutorial' in COPYCLI with parent 'Confluence_CLI Home'.
  1 comments copied from page 'Blogging tutorial' to 'Blogging tutorial' in space COPYCLI.
  1 labels copied.
  Page 'addPage_CLI' copied to 'addPage_CLI' in COPYCLI with parent 'Confluence_CLI Home'.
  Attachment 'pics.jpg' copied to 'addPage_CLI' in space COPYCLI.
  Attachment 'butterfly.jpg' copied to 'addPage_CLI' in space COPYCLI.
  2 attachments copied from page 'addPage_CLI' to 'addPage_CLI' in space COPYCLI.
  2 comments copied from page 'addPage_CLI' to 'addPage_CLI' in space COPYCLI.
  1 labels copied.
  3 page permissions copied from page 'addPage_CLI' in space CLI to page 'addPage_CLI' in space COPYCLI. Permissions were replaced.
  Page 'CLI_Title_1' copied to 'CLI_Title_1' in COPYCLI with parent 'addPage_CLI'.
  Page 'CLI_Title_2' copied to 'CLI_Title_2' in COPYCLI with parent 'addPage_CLI'.
  Page 'CLI_Title_3' copied to 'CLI_Title_3' in COPYCLI with parent 'addPage_CLI'.
  Page 'Confluence_CLI Home' with 5 descendents copied to 'Confluence_CLI Home' in space COPYCLI. Page has id 13172763.
  6 pages copied.
  Blog 'Blog_Title' copied to 'Blog_Title' in space COPYCLI. Blog has id 13172776. Posting date was 2020-04-08.
  1 blogs copied.
  Space copied successfully to COPYCLI.

• Output in Confluence:

  
  

The above action contains the following parameters: 

• copySpace: Creates a new space and copies pages to the new space. Other information can also be copied based on other parameters. By default, find-replace logic applies only to content. To apply the find-replace logic to the title, use --options applyFindReplaceOnTitles.
• space: Space key. For some actions, a space name may also work.
• newSpace: New space key for the copied or moved page.
• name: Space name or file name for the attachment.
• description: Descriptive text.
• copyBlogs: Copy blogs when copying a space.
• copyAttachments: Copy attachments when copying a page.
• copyLabels: Copy labels when copying a page or space.
• copyComments: Copy comments when copying a page.
• copyPermissions: Copy permissions when copying a page or space. Source permissions replace existing target permissions. Note Confluence page permissions are copied as restrictions.
• continue: Continue processing even after errors are encountered for run actions. Also used for some actions to ignore certain errors like not found errors on remove actions.