On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/24/11 5:57 AM, Agnello George wrote: > > 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 . > > What you need to know is too long to describe here, but first you need to > find a > list of shell metacharacters and how to quote them on the command line. > Short > version is that a \ quotes the next character single quotes quote > everything > except another single quote literally, double quotes cover most things but > allow > $variable expansion. > > Then you need to look at what subversion itself requires after you get the > literal value past the shell parser. I thought it was just that @ was > interpreted as file at revision peg revision unless you append another @ to > the end > but there could be more restrictions. All of that is simple enough to > work > around - but probably not worth it compared to using sensible names. > However > the thing that is going to kill you is that files that differ only in case > of > one or more letters are different files on linux - and in a linux svn > repository > - but not on windows (where such things are most likely being created). > Enforce > some rules before that happens. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > I found the solution ( i think ) i did svn add html/Set min account.html svn: warning: 'html/Set' not found svn: warning: 'min' not found svn: warning: 'account.html' not found then i did svn add "html/Set min account.html" A html/Set min account.html so here is my final answer instead of doing for i in $(svn st | grep "?" | awk '{print $2}'); do svn add $i;done i can do for i in $(svn st | grep "?" | awk '{print $2}'); do svn add *"$i" *;done This is working for me ... i wonder if i am going to stumble somewhere ...humm! -- Regards Agnello D'souza -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110124/8967657f/attachment-0004.html>