Re: Bulk-Add

[Jeremy A. Mates]

On 26 Feb 2001, Laine Stump wrote:
> It seems like shell scripts are becoming a lost art...

Here's my rendition:

cvs up | perl -nle 'print if s/^\? //' | xargs cvs add

Though xargs has trouble if you have files with wierd characters in
their names, e.g. space.

> You may need to do this a few times (once for each level of new
> directory created), because I haven't made it recursive.

A recursive bulk cvs add is more work, as cvs update will only show that
a new directory needs to be added before showing new files under that
particular directory.

Probably easier just to run the update script a bunch of times, or start
off with a 'find -type d | xargs cvs add' to get all the dirs in first,
then the other command.

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