Re: Using svn in a unix pipe

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 23:17, Steven Elliott wrote:

Unix has 'xargs' command that can "transfer" arguments from the stdin list to
the command line (see 'man xargs' on unix; beware that it mau be rather
broken on some older flavours of unix, even on Linux...)

> I have so far got
>
> svn st | egrep ³\?² | sed Œs/\?\(.*\)/ \1/¹ | svn add
>
> So svn is outputting to egrep which is taking all the files marked ³?² and
> sending that to sed to strip off the ³?² (which could be ³!² ..etc) which I
> would then like to send to svn add (or delete or...).
>
> Problem is the stdout is not making it to the add argument.

Try

svn st | egrep "^?" | sed 's/\?\(.*\)/ \1/' | xargs -t svn add

or

svn st | egrep "^?" | sed 's/\?\(.*\)/ \1/' | xargs -t -n1 svn add

(to add files one by one)

This will probably do what you want.

I have also a script 'svn-add-unknown' which uses backticks and awk for this
purpose. (I attach my svn scripts to this mail)

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