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How to script extraction of a single file?

From: Bryce Nesbitt (spam account)
Subject: How to script extraction of a single file?
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:54:40 -0500
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I'm writing a script to process a file stored in CVS, and have ran into something awkward. All I want to do is extract a read-only copy of a file stored in cvs. But: 


/usr/bin/cvs -lf -Qd /tmp/cvsroot_test co -r1.2 module/file.zip
Requires write access to the repository.

/usr/bin/cvs -lf -Qd /tmp/cvsroot_test export -r1.2 module/file.zip
Requires a symbolic tag, not a revision number.

/usr/bin/cvs -lf -Qd /tmp/cvsroot_test co -p -r1.2 module/file.zip
Is slow because of the pipe.
Is there an easy way to just extract a single file from a cvs repository, without the hassles described above? 

               -Bryce Nesbitt
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