How to get consistent output for: cvs -q -n up -d ?

[Daniel Yek]

Hi,

I am having problem getting consistent output using a cvs command to 
list on the module directories.

cvs -d <whatever> co -l \.

If I check out a module here, the output of the following command will 
be different from if I don't check out any module here.

cvs -q -n up -d 2>&1 | cut -f 5 -d' ' | sed "s/\`\|'//g" -

This might be caused by the entries in CVS/Entries.Log file,  but I am 
not sure.

Is there a way to modify the cvs command above to consistently list the 
module directories only (without second-level directories in the output) 
in an existing source directory?

Thanks.

--
Daniel.