On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:10:31PM +0000, Jaime E. Villate wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:06:39AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Hi! > > > > If you wondered about my mass Makefile commit in the german directory, > > I've found an easy way to check for outdated Makefiles and I'd like to > > share it with you all: > > > > #v+ > > for i in `find german -name Makefile `; do > > if [ -n "$(diff `echo $i | sed 's/^german/english/'` $i)" ]; then > > cp `echo $i | sed 's/^german/english/' $i > > fi > > done > > #v- > You forgot a ` after german/english/' > And you can also make it a bit faster and simpler: > > for i in `find german -name Makefile `; do > j=`echo $i | sed 's/^german/english/'`; > if [ -n "$(diff $j $i)" ]; then > cp $j $i > fi > done Why not copy the files unconditionally? cvs can figure out which need to be committed. Matt
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