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add all files not under version control to repository

Terminal - add all files not under version control to repository
svn add $(svn st|grep ^\?|cut -c2-)
2010-01-28 09:48:46
User: inkel
Functions: cut grep
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add all files not under version control to repository

This version makes uses of Bash shell expansion, so it might not work in all other shells.

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svn status |grep '\?' |awk '{print $2}'| xargs svn add
2009-01-29 10:33:22
User: xsawyerx
Functions: xargs
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add all files not under version control to repository

checks which files are not under version control, fetches the names and runs them through "svn add". WARNING: doesn't work with white spaces.

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svn st | grep "^\?" | awk "{print \$2}" | xargs svn add $1
2009-02-05 17:28:53
User: mk
Functions: awk grep xargs
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svn add . --force
2010-01-28 10:10:08
User: sinjax
Tags: svn
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add all files not under version control to repository

With the force options the same results can be achieved

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svn st | awk '{if ($1 ~ "?") print $2}' | xargs svn add
2010-06-19 03:07:26
User: sciurus
Functions: awk xargs
Tags: svn awk
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Add all unversioned files to svn

No need for grep, let awk do the match. This will not behave properly if the filenames contains whitespace, which is awk's default field separator.

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svn status |grep '\?' |awk '{print $2}'| parallel -Xj1 svn add
2010-01-28 08:47:54
User: unixmonkey8046
Functions: awk grep
Tags: xargs parallel
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add all files not under version control to repository

xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this:

touch important_file

touch 'not important_file'

ls not* | xargs rm

Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.

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