Re: Checkout a file revision to stdout?

[Derek Robert Price]

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Todd Denniston wrote:

>address@hidden wrote:
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>>I wrote a script called rcsgrep a long time ago that checked out files
>>on the main trunk only directly from the ,v file in the archive, and
>>grepped through each one in turn.  So I could use that.  I just
>>wondered if there was a better way.
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>if it is a line that was put in and never modified, then  `cvs annotate
>filename` might be useful. I have found that command to be a lot of fun.


FWIW, the contrib/check_cvs script distributed with the 1.12.* series of
releases has some recent modifications that allow you to execute an
arbitrary perl script or shell command on a checked out copy of each
revision of a file or each revision of each file in a project.

Derek

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