bzr add filename from list

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, john welford wrote:

> Is it possible to add a list of files to bzr from the command line either by piping them from a previous
> command (in my case a sed command) or by referencing a text file containing all the file locations? I've
> tried a few things but can't get it working.

xargs bzr add <file

But only if your filenames don't contain spaces.

Otherwise (needs a Korn Shell such as mksh (or its ancestor
pdksh) or ksh93) installed:

set -A names; while IFS= read -r name; do names[${#names[*]}]=$name; done <file; bzr add "${names[@]}"

bye,
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