Pipe commands
The UVCS command line can read arguments from standard input (stdin) one by one if you use the - option.
For example, you can add three files at the same time:
>cm add -
a.txt
b.txt
c.txt
The selected items are about to be added. Please wait ...
Item c:\Users\pablo\wkspaces\mcga\a.txt was correctly added
Item c:\Users\pablo\wkspaces\mcga\b.txt was correctly added
Item c:\Users\pablo\wkspaces\mcga\c.txt was correctly addedThis allows you to pipe output from other commands into cm. For example, you can combine commands to create automations such as to add all files under a specific directory tree:
find /path/to/dir | cm add -
Commands that accept piped paths
The following commands accept piped paths:
addapplylocalchangescheckincheckoutgetstatuspartialcheckinremoveshelveset createundocheckoutundochangeuncounchangedWktreenodestatus
Pipe examples
Pipe from the Windows dir command
The following example pipes from the Windows dir command to remove files that match a specific pattern from a workspace:
>dir /S /B *.txt | cm rm -
Item c:\Users\pablo\wkspaces\mcga\a.txt has been removed.
Item c:\Users\pablo\wkspaces\mcga\b.txt has been removed.
Item c:\Users\pablo\wkspaces\mcga\c.txt has been removed.
Item c:\Users\pablo\wkspaces\mcga\z.txt has been removed.
Item c:\Users\pablo\wkspaces\mcga\lockwkB\file.txt has been removed.
Item c:\Users\pablo\wkspaces\mcga\src_dir\dest_dir\a.txt has been removed.
Item c:\Users\pablo\wkspaces\mcga\src_dir\dest_dir\b.txt has been removed.
Item c:\Users\pablo\wkspaces\mcga\src_dir\dest_dir\c.txt has been removed.Checkout files recursively into piped directory arguments
Directory of c:/mcga/pipe
11/05/2020 19:48 <DIR> .
11/05/2020 19:48 <DIR> ..
11/05/2020 17:57 <DIR> dir
11/05/2020 19:46 <DIR> dir2
11/05/2020 19:47 12 dirlist
1 File(s) 12 bytes
4 Dir(s) 23,714,631,680 bytes free
c:/mcga/pipe>type dirlist
dir
dir2
c:/mcga/pipe>type dirlist | cm partial co -r -
The selected items are about to be checked out. Please wait ...
Item c:/mcga/pipe/dir was correctly checked out
Item c:/mcga/pipe/dir/file was correctly checked out
Item c:/mcga/pipe/dir2 was correctly checked out
Item c:/mcga/pipe/dir2/file2 was correctly checked out