Question

I am writing a shell script that gets me the status of a directory in svn then loops through it and either adds or deletes the files.

This svn command

$ svn status /myLocalDir/files

returns files i have either added or deleted locally. ? = add, ! = deleted

!        /myLocalDir/files/deletedPicture.png
?        /myLocalDir/files/addedPicture.png

Im using a loop in my bash script (see below). What i need to do is, when i loop through my root directory of the files/folders that have been either added, or deleted, I need to

A. print out “Deleting” [X] or “Adding” [X]

B. Determine based on the first char (?,!) if I should delete or add the current file in the loop to svn.

Im just not sure the syntax of how to parse the string “! /myLocalDir/files/deletedPicture.png” to do that

for X in `svn status /myLocalDir/files | cut -c 8-300`
            do  
                if [ "!" ]
                    then
                        echo "Deleting " $X
                        #svn $CREDENTIALS delete $X
                    else
                        echo "Adding " $X
                        #svn $CREDENTIALS  add $X
                fi

            done

one other thing i am noticing.. even thought svn status in the command line

!        /myLocalDir/files/deletedPicture.png
?        /myLocalDir/files/addedPicture.png

my bash loop echo’s like this

!        
/myLocalDir/files/deletedPicture.png
?
/myLocalDir/files/addedPicture.png

Answer 1

Thanks for all the input!! but this is what i went with.. all i really needed to do was determine base on the first char of a string which was delete and which was add so I substring’d it. I replaced the spaces with dashes which solved my for looping issue and then I substring each one for my condition

for X in `svn status /myLocalDir/files |tr " " "-"`
            do  
                if [ ${X:0:1} == "!" ]
                    then
                        echo "Deleting " ${X:8}
                        svn delete ${X:8}
                    elif [ ${X:0:1} == "?" ]
                        echo "Adding " ${X:8}
                        svn add ${X:8}
                fi

            done