Clearcase labeling with spaces in filenames

Working with spaces in filenames is a right royal pain - should be a criminal offence, if you ask me! (if it wasn't for -0 on xargs and -print0 on find, it'd be a lot more painful, but I digress :-)

Clearcase has it's own slightly different set of tools which doesn't help matters either. So one problem you commonly face is "I want to apply a label across some specific set of files, but some of them have spaces in them." The standard tricks don't work, but fortunately there is a workaround. Here 'tis.

shadowfax:> cleartool find . -type f -version "some criteria" -exec 'cleartool mklabel MY_NEW_LABEL "$CLEARCASE_XPN"'

'XPN' gives us the extended pathname (as opposed to 'PN'), and the double quotes cover the space-in-filename issue. Just one of them dang things you blog about because you never know when you'll need it again later :-)

/tech/misc | 17 Jul 2007 | #