[Discuss] Command line question

[Adam Parkin]

Clarke Brunsdon wrote:
> I hope all these messages aren't just because someone doesn't know about
> 'cvs export'.

Okay since you all helped so much with the first question, how about 
another (since as it turns out I'm going to be repeating the process 
again on Friday):

In actuality what I had was a CVS repository with one module for each 
user (this was for the course I'm TAing).  What I needed to do was get a 
copy of each students assignment from the repository, but nothing else 
(no CVS stuff, no files from the labs or other assignments etc).  Most 
students used the directory "a3" inside their module (since this was for 
the 3rd assignment), but a few of course used "asn3", "assign3", 
"assignment3", etc.  So I ended up checking out each one's assignment 3 
folder individually (there's only about 30 students, so not a big deal), 
and if it was named something other than a3, I renamed it to a3.  And of 
course some students submitted nothing at all, so there was nothing to 
copy over.

My question: is there an easy way to just grab all the students files 
from the repository.  Thinking in terms of pseudocode I'd like to have 
something that works like:

for each student in repository
	if a3 folder exists in students module
		copy/export a3 contents only to current directory
	else
		could not find assignment 3 so add to list
		of ones to check out manually

Any suggestions?
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Adam Parkin
E-mail: pzelnip at telus.net
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