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# 8  
Old 02-20-2012
Don't know why it wouldn't. What shell are you using?

echo "svn relocate " $OldRepo " " $NewRepo
echo "svn relocate ${OldRepo} ${NewRepo} " should work also.
# 9  
Old 02-20-2012
to find path and create file pathList.dat file
Code:
find /webdata/tmpDNAbld -type d -exec sh -c '[ -d "$1"/.svn ] || exit 1' sh {} \; -print | cat > pathList.dat

what the "entries file" looks like (where hostname is located) we are only interested in the second URL line
Code:
8

dir
5254
https://Oldhostname/oldpath1/svn/oldpath2/NBH-HMS-HealthPromotion/tags/hp_rewrite/WebApp/Views/Account
https://Oldhostname/oldpath1/svn/oldpath2/NBH-HMS-HealthPromotion

... snip

---------- Post updated at 01:43 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:41 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by bsrepellant
Don't know why it wouldn't. What shell are you using?

echo "svn relocate " $OldRepo " " $NewRepo
echo "svn relocate ${OldRepo} ${NewRepo} " should work also.

ksh
Last edited by methyl; 02-23-2012 at 03:03 PM.. Reason: make url visible
# 10  
Old 02-20-2012
@pcpinkerton
That doesn't look like the output of a sample:
Code:
sed -n l ./svn/entries

The format of these files is probably the problem. We need to see the control codes before a screen driver interprets them.
The "sed" is just designed to make control codes visible. When displayed by this method a normal unix line terminator shows as a dollar sign. Because these files came from a MAC they may contain carriage-return characters.
Last edited by methyl; 02-20-2012 at 03:12 PM..
# 11  
Old 02-20-2012
There was no confirmation from methyl's post about the missing backticks that assign the variables. Make sure this is not a typo.
# 12  
Old 02-20-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
We'd still like to see a sample of the ".svn/entries" file displayed with the "sed" I mentioned earlier. This would tell us what the line terminators are in this file and whether it is a recognisable text file format.

Further to bsrepellant, I suspect that we'll need to remove carriage-return characters (\r) not linefeed characters (\n).


With a bit of lateral thought we can use the same sed display to show what the script is actually outputting (rather than what it looks like on the screen):
Code:
./scriptname   |  sed -n l

results:
Code:
cd /path/to/destin\
ation$   
svn relocate OldUrl/path/destin\
ationNewUrl/path/destination$

seems a next line is inserted and no space between first destination and URL

2nd line terminated with $

---------- Post updated at 02:55 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:41 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by bsrepellant
There was no confirmation from methyl's post about the missing backticks that assign the variables. Make sure this is not a typo.
What is a backtick ?
Last edited by Scott; 02-22-2012 at 02:22 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 13  
Old 02-20-2012
The character left of the 1 key.
Example:
OldRepo=`grep Oldhostname ${i}/.svn/entries | tail -1`
# 14  
Old 02-20-2012
Quote:
for i in `cat /scripts/pathList.dat`
Script line 1 contains two left quote characters. These are known in unix shell scripting as "backticks". In your ksh the code between the backticks is executed and the results placed on the command line.
Script lines 3 and 4 contain space characters where I would expect to see backticks.
Code:
variable=`command string`
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