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It is really a great solution. Thanks a lot for reducing my work.

Thanks, this is fantastic

It did not work for me as specified under bash on OS X, I had to use the following, and note the -n1 parameter for xargs:

find . -type d -print | grep -v CVS | xargs -n1 cvs add
find . -type f -print | grep -v CVS | xargs -n1 cvs add

the -n1 ensures that cvs add is called only for a single file each time. That's required because while cvs add can be called with a number of files as argument, if one of the arguments "aborts" the add, the others won't be added. I found that to happen with the first line which adds the directories. If a directory is already there, cvs add aborts instead of just skipping it like it does with files.

So it would do a cvs add dir1 dir2 dir3, but because dir1 was already in the repository, it would not add dir 2 and 3. I am not sure it's required for files, but it can't hurt.

Thanks guys this is just what I needed. Don't have eclipse setup on my mac. :(

thank you, thank you, thank you. awesome.

I love it.

Thanks!

Be aware that the command uses "grep" and you might have grep aliased to some command lines. For example, as a programmer, I find this useful:

alias grep='grep -n -i --color=auto'

However, it fails the above commands. So you have to type "unalias grep" first.

kinda the same solutions but w/o so much wasted pipes ;-)

find . -type d -! -name CVS -! -name '.' -exec cvs add {} \;
find . -type f -! -name CVS -! -name '.' -exec cvs add {} \;

sorry copy the wrong line :)

find . -type f -! -iregex ".*CVS.*" -exec cvs add {} \;

-iregex is a gnu find only extension (as is -!, use \! instead), and really unnecessary since -iname \*CVS\* is the same as the .*CVS.* regex

Sweet, I use this all the time.