i got a file like this and i need add it into my svn admin/upload_data/FINAL leg list 19_01_2010 to agar (Merged data in one).xls i as able to add other files with space using the following command : svn st |grep ? |cut -c8- |sed 's/ /\\ /g' |xargs svn add however there are some special characters like ( ) +#@ that svn cannot understand as the full path of the file . can some one help me in this in perl or in shell . -- Regards Agnello D'souza -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110124/097baf20/attachment-0004.html>