NOTE : Get the Korn shell /bin/ksh by installing pdksh*.rpm from the Linux contrib cdrom
Save this file as a text file and chmod a+rx on it.
#!/bin/ksh # CVS program supdate # Program to update the file from CVS read/write mode # Every filename is composed of 3 parts - Home directory, sub-directory # and the filename. The full-path is $HOME/$subdir/$fname # And in CVS the same directory structure is maintained (by # variable $subdir) therefore in cvs we will have $CVSROOT/$subdir/$fname # In this program these 4 variables $HOME, $CVSROOT, $subdir and $fname # play an important role. For example, sample values can be like # HOME=/home/aldev, subdir=myproject/src CVSROOT=/home/cvsroot # and fname=foo.cpp # Caution: Put double-quotes to protect the variables having # spaces, like "$HOME/$subdir" if subdir is 'some foo.cpp' cmdname=`basename $0` if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then print "\nUsage: $cmdname <filename>" exit fi # Put double quotes to protect spaces in $1 tmpaa="$1" # Check if file already exists.... if [ $# -gt 0 -a -f $tmpaa ]; then user_perms=" " group_perms=" " other_perms=" " user_perms=`ls -l $tmpaa | awk '{print $tmpaa }' | cut -b3-3 ` group_perms=`ls -l $tmpaa | awk '{print $tmpaa }' | cut -b6-6 ` other_perms=`ls -l $tmpaa | awk '{print $tmpaa }' | cut -b9-9 ` if [ "$user_perms" = "w" -o "$group_perms" = "w" \ -o "$other_perms" = "w" ]; then while : do print "\n$cmdname will backup your working file " print "$tmpaa to $tmpaa.supdate_bak before doing any merges." print "Are you sure you want the merge the changes from" print -n "CVS repository to your working file ? <y/n> [n]: " read ans if [ "$ans" = "y" -o "$ans" = "Y" ]; then if [ -f $tmpaa.supdate_bak ]; then print "\nWarning : File $tmpaa.supdate_bak already exists!!" print "Please examine the file $tmpaa.supdate_bak and delete it" print "and then re-try this $cmdname " print "Aborting $cmdname ...." exit else cp $tmpaa $tmpaa.supdate_bak break fi elif [ "$ans" = "n" -o "$ans" = "N" -o "$ans" = "" -o "$ans" = " " ]; then exit fi done fi fi if [ -d $tmpaa ]; then print "\nDirectory update is disabled because cvs update" print "merges the changes from repository to your working directory." print "Hence give the filename to update - as shown below: " print " Usage: $cmdname <filename>" exit # cvs update else cvs update $tmpaa fi print "\nDone $cmdname. $cmdname successful" print "\n\nThe original file is backed-up to $tmpaa.supdate_bak" print "\nHence your original file is SAVED to $tmpaa.supdate_bak" print "\n\n" #print "\nTip (Usage): $cmdname <filename/directory name>\n"