Re: quoting date strings in RCS

[Steven N. Crane]

Daniel,

Thanks. I knew it had to be some idiocy on my part.
I just didn't know where. This _does_ go through
a wrapper which redirects to a platform specific image.
(ie, from /usr/local/bin/co to /usr/local/bin/hp/co).
Which of course does not preserve the quoting.

Thanks for focusing my attention on this.

- Steven

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On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Daniel Trinkle wrote:

> "Steven N. Crane" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to use the -d switch with co. The man page says
> > I need to quote dates with embedded blanks. Fair enough.
> > 
> > But it doesn't seem to work for me.  (This is with RCS 5.7).
> > 
> > I get:
> > 
> >  > co -p -d"Mon Oct 30 15:07:21 PST 2000" file.c > file.c
> > 
> > co: RCS/Oct,v: No such file or directory
> > co: RCS/30,v: No such file or directory
> > co: RCS/15:07:21,v: No such file or directory
> > co: RCS/PST,v: No such file or directory
> > co: RCS/2000,v: No such file or directory
> > (followed by checkout of latest rev of file.c)
> > 
> > OR:
> > 
> >  > co -p -d'Mon Oct 30 15:07:21 PST 2000' file.c > file.c
> > 
> > co: RCS/Oct,v: No such file or directory
> > co: RCS/30,v: No such file or directory
> > co: RCS/15:07:21,v: No such file or directory
> > co: RCS/PST,v: No such file or directory
> > co: RCS/2000,v: No such file or directory
> > (followed by checkout of latest rev of file.c)
> > 
> > So how AM I supposed to quote the date?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > - Steven
> > 
> >   Steven N. Crane              email: address@hidden
> >   Unigraphics Solutions, Inc.  voice: (714) 952-6355
> >   1S-120                       fax:   (714) 952-6746
> >   10824 Hope St.
> >   Cypress, CA  90630
> 
> This looks like a shell quoting problem.  Are you sure you are running
> the "co" command directly?  Or are you really running a shell script
> wrapper or ksh function?.  When I run
> 
> /usr/local/bin/co -p -d'Mon Oct 30 15:07:21 PST 2000' file.c
> 
> and
> 
> /usr/local/bin/co -p -d'Mon Oct 30 15:07:21 PST 2000' file.c
> 
> I get the results expected.  Find out where your co command is really
> installed (/usr/local/bin?) and run it with a full path and see if
> that fixes the problem.
> 
> Daniel Trinkle                        address@hidden
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