Re: ops, does cvs admin -kb hurt anthing?

[Larry Jones]

Ronald Petty writes:
> 
> find . -name *.jpeg | xargs cvs admin -kb
> 
> And since there are no jpeg files somehow cvs just assumed do it for the
> current directory and starting doing it to every file.

This is off-topic for this list, but most versions of xargs always run
the command at least once, even when the input is empty (although GNU
xargs has a --no-run-if-empty flag that can be useful at times).  So,
you ended up running:

                cvs admin -kb

which means, like usual, to process every file in the current directory,
recursively.  It's always a good idea to run find all by itself and make
sure that the resulting list is what you expect before you pipe it into
xargs.

-Larry Jones

I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me. -- Calvin