Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

We have to tag all source code files to prepare a release kit. We have one CVS Project under which all files have to be tagged.

We use the following cvs command to tag a specific version of a file:

'cvs rtag -r X.XX -F "newbuild" somefile'

This command asks for the CVS Login password everytime executed.

What I plan to is to minimize the manual tagging of files with the newbuild and just have a list of fil_name, version changed since the last build.

file_list.csv
-----------------
file_name,version
-----------------

If we have the information in the following format, can write a shell script to tag all files against the version specified with the newbuild name.

Note: The cvs commands asks for a password everytime it is executed. Can I pass the password just once?


Thanks,
Rahul.

I've found out that the expect utility can pass input to such commands through stored files.

Where can i get expect for Sun Solaris 5.8?

Thanks,
Rahul.

Right here

Hi Rahul,
Try this
for i in * # or whatever list of filenames
do
cvs your_cvs_processing << EOF
userid
password
EOF
done