Can I get all the file extensions of text files in the repository in CVS ?

Question

I need a list of all file types of text files in CVS (such as .cpp,.h etc. )

can it be done?

Answer 1

I know it's quick and dirty but you can play with regular expressions, grepping, redirecting to a file, sorting...(blah blah blah):

cvs ls -R [path to repo] | grep "\.[A-Za-z0-9]*$" | sed 's/.*\(\.[A-Za-z0-9]*\)$/\1/' > fileExtensions && sort fileExtensions | uniq

Explanation:

• list all files in the repository
• print only those with an extension
• extract the extension with sed
• redirect output to a file
• sort the file, then print unique lines