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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# a script that automatically syncs data
+# between the wikibase and wqds containers
+# gnd, 2020
+##########################################
+# generate a temp file name
+TMP_FILE=`mktemp`
+
+# dump the data: 
+docker exec wikibase-docker_wikibase_1 php ./extensions/Wikibase/repo/maintenance/dumpRdf.php --server http://daap.bannerrepeater.org --output $TMP_FILE
+
+# copy from container to container (direct copying is not supported so..)
+# plz note here its actually three different files having the same name
+# across the host system and two containers
+docker cp wikibase-docker_wikibase_1:$TMP_FILE $TMP_FILE
+docker cp $TMP_FILE wikibase-docker_wdqs_1:$TMP_FILE
+
+# import with munge using directly the java executable 
+docker exec -w /wdqs wikibase-docker_wdqs_1 java -cp /wdqs/lib/wikidata-query-tools-0.3.10-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.Munge --from $TMP_FILE --to /tmp/mungeOut/wikidump-%09d.ttl.gz --skipSiteLinks --chunkSize 100000 -w daap.bannerrepeater.org
+
+# load the data into the wdqs 
+docker exec wikibase-docker_wdqs_1 ./loadData.sh -n wdq -d /tmp/mungeOut
+
+# cleanup
+rm $TMP_FILE
+docker exec wikibase-docker_wikibase_1 rm $TMP_FILE
+docker exec wikibase-docker_wdqs_1 rm $TMP_FILE
+docker exec wikibase-docker_wdqs_1 rm -rf /tmp/mungeOut