Re: about imports and cvs update

[Harry Putnam]

Spiro Trikaliotis <address@hidden> writes:

>> The find command is flexible enough to do most of the work itself:
>> 
>> $ find . -type d \( -name CVS -prune -o -print0 \) | xargs -0 -n 10 cvs add 
>> --
>> 
>> and this variation should be safe regardless of what crazy characters
>> are present in filenames.
>
> Thank you!

I like it but:
Now you've stepped away from readability a slight bit in my opinion. I
suspect there are many cvs users even with unix backgrounds who would
have to ponder the -prune and -print0 flags a bit.

I think maybe the double grep -v is a bit more obvious. I know its not
really considered kosher by old unix hands...

I use find very frequently and have for many yrs, but would have had
to pound on `man find' a while to come up with that.

I've used both -prune and -print0 but don't often find need of it.  In
fact, only rarely.