Problem with unix pipe command

Question

I have a list of directory names in a text file. I want to use these as part of a file_name a git-svn clone command.

This prints out the contents of the file line by line.

cat repos_to_migrate.txt | tee $1

This however does not work:

cat repos_to_migrate.txt | git svn clone file:///home/svn/$1
... Unable to open repository 'file:///home/svn' ...

Any ideas here? I'f it matters I'm running centos5.

cdhowie · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-07 05:47:10Z

1

(
    while read repo; do
        git svn clone file:///home/svn/$repo
    done
) < repos_to_migrate.txt

answered Jan 7, 2011 at 5:47

cdhowie

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4 Comments

Thank you. This is working great so far. If a command failed the script would continue correct?

If you mean if one of the git svn clone operations would fail, then yes, it would continue with the next one.

If you want to abort instead of continue on failure, just add set -e on a line before the while.

Or use git svn clone ... || exit.