How to add or check-in all files in a directory to CVS?

Question

Say I have a lot of files that I want to add then check in at once. But consider that CVS folder should be excluded. What kind of command or script can be used in order to do this?

I have tried

find -name "*" -type f | xargs cvs add

to add files to repository, but it does not work. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this to find all files in the current directory and add them to cvs:

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec cvs add {} \;

Another set to consider as arguments to find would be -not -name CVS if you wanted to exclude something by name (not necessary above because we are only looking at files, not folders).

Answer 2

Try with something like:

find . -type f -a ! -wholename "*/CVS/*" -print0 | xargs -0 cvs add