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# 15  
Old 02-25-2010
Sorry, yes I write the output to a text file $ACTION_LOG and i do
tail -f when I actually check in files through my IDE to see if anything is coming out.

Thanks.
# 16  
Old 02-25-2010
Just saw where you edited something previous
Can you do the following:
Code:
>echo test=A /content/qa/lesson1/index.html A /content/qa/lesson2/index.html A /content/qa/lesson3/index.html | sed 's/A/~A/g' | tr '~' '\n' | grep "^A" | cut -d" " -f2
/content/qa/lesson1/index.html
/content/qa/lesson2/index.html
/content/qa/lesson3/index.html

Essentially, do your command with a new filter at end
Code:
/usr/bin/svnlook changed $REPOS -r $REV | grep "^A.*index.html$" | sed 's/A/~A/g' | tr '~' '\n' | grep "^A" | cut -d" " -f2



---------- Post updated at 04:28 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:25 PM ----------

append the following to your tail command
Code:
| sed 's/A/~A/g' | tr '~' '\n' | grep "^A" | cut -d" " -f2

to get one line for each instance

Does that much work?
# 17  
Old 02-25-2010
I used this and got it to work.
Code:
echo test=A /content/qa/lesson1/index.html A /content/qa/lesson2/index.html A /content/qa/lesson3/index.html | \
sed 's/A/~A/g' | tr '~' '\n' | grep "^A" | cut -d" " -f2 | cut -d"/" -f4

I get
Code:
lession1
lession2
lessions

Now I need to plug this into my actual code and see if that works as i wanted. THanks for helping me so far. i will inform you if i got this going. thanks.
Last edited by Scott; 02-25-2010 at 06:27 PM.. Reason: Code tags please...
# 18  
Old 02-25-2010
Here's another way but it's a couple milliseconds slower than sed | tr | grep | cut | cut
Code:
# echo "A /content/qa/lesson1/index.html A /content/qa/lesson2/index.html" | awk '{print $2"\n"$4}' | xargs -n1 dirname | xargs -n1 basename
lesson1
lesson2
#

# 19  
Old 02-26-2010
Question Is it working now
Unlcear whether appending the sed, etc..., commands gave you what you needed.
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