Question

I’m trying

svn add *.py --force

As the documentation suggests, but I know for a fact it’s missing files nested in deeper folders. Why?

Is there a standard way to do this with other unix commands too? */*.py will nab a few more files, but it’s kind of a pain in the butt to do this for every possible depth.

Answer 1

The find command is the trick to dig out the files you want.

find . -name "*.py" -exec svn add --parents {} ';'

And there’s about a million ways to do it, all of which are educational in their own right.

# if you want to make sure you don't find files in your .svn directories
find . -name .svn -prune -o -name "*.py" -exec svn add --parents {} ';'

# execs svn only once; probably a bit faster.
# -print0 and -0 avoid problems if files have spaces in names
find . -name .svn -prune -o -name "*.py" -print0 | xargs -0 svn add --parents