Re: Adding files

[Jim Hyslop]

Dave wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm sitting in the root of my (large) CVS source tree. Spread throughout the
> directories of the tree are a number of new files, all with the extension
> .vcproj.
>
> > From the root of my course tree, I'd like to issue the following command:
>
> cvs add *.vcproj
>
> However, my CVS client responds that it knows nothing about *.vcproj.
>
> I am working under a DOS command prompt. If I were under Linux, I'd try
> something like this:
>
> cvs add `find . -name "*.vcproj" -print`
>
> Alas, I don't have that option in Bill's world.
No, but Cygwin lets you do that.

> How may I accomplish my aim here without going into each individual
> directory?

dir /s /b *.vcproj>projfiles.bat

will give you a list of all the .vcproj files. Then edit the file to 
insert "cvs add".

Klunky, ugly, time-consuming and all that, but it'll get you there.

--
Jim