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echo "12345,12346" |sed -e's/ //'|tr "," "\n"| while read line; do echo -n $line" "; svn log -vr $line https://url/to/svn/repository/|grep "/"|head -1|cut -d"/" -f2; done
2009-04-15 15:21:20
User: psytek
Functions: cut echo grep head read sed tr
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Find the svn directory that a commit was made in. Usefull if you have many projects in one repository.
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ls -1 static/images/ | while read line; do echo -n $line' '[; grep -rc $line *|grep -v ".svn"|cut -d":" -f2|grep -vc 0| tr "\n" -d; echo -n ]; echo ; done
2009-03-20 20:33:36
User: psytek
Functions: cut echo grep ls read tr
Tags: unix clean project static
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Recursively grep a subdirectory for a list of files

This command will grep the entire directory looking for any files containing the list of files. This is useful for cleaning out your project of old static files that are no longer in use. Also ignores .svn directories for accurate counts. Replace 'static/images/' with the directory containing the files you want to search for.

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rename .JPG .jpg *.JPG
2009-03-10 15:07:24
User: psytek
Functions: rename
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Change the extension of a filename by using rename to convert

This will change all files ending in .JPG to .jpg and will work with any file extension

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svn log -q|grep "|"|awk "{print \$3}"|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr
2009-02-17 21:37:03
User: psytek
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Display a list of committers sorted by the frequency of commits

Use this command to find out a list of committers sorted by the frequency of commits.

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