Escape from boredom

List all files needed to be commited into Subversion, then grep only files not added, this being lines starting with question mark. The ‘^\?’ means

• ^ = line start
• \ = escape next charater
• ? = The character to search for, since ? is a metacharater in Regex, it must be escaped.

Then using awk print the file path and name and at last using xargs and svn add – add the files to svn.

svn status | grep ^\? | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn add