Below is the code snippet I am using. I need the file contents in a variable.
*fileContents=`$SVNLOOK cat $REPOS $FNAME -t $TXN`* *echo "contents:" $fileContents 1>&2* Am I doing anything wrong? -Dhiraj On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> wrote: > On 25.06.2015 09:31, Dhiraj Prajapati wrote: > > Hi, > I have a pre-commit hook which validates the contents of the files being > committed before commit. > I am using *svnlook cat* command to read the contents of the file being > committed. > However, whenever there is a leading slash on a particular line in the > file, the *svnlook cat* command fails to display the slash. Instead it > prints the names of all the files/folders in the root directory. > > *Example file contents:* > > xyz > <input name=abc/> > /* > abc > > *Command:* > > svnlook cat <repository_path> <file_name> -t <txn> > > *Output:* > > xyz <input name=abc/> /app /bin /boot /cdrom /dev /etc /home /lib > /lost+found /media /mnt /opt /proc /root /run /sbin /sources /srv /sys /tmp > /usr /var /vmlinuz /vmlinuz.old abc > > I want* svnlook cat* to print exactly what is in the file. Please assist. > > > This is "impossible" in the sense that 'svnlook cat' does not process the > contents in any way, it just prints them to stdout. > > You're probably piping the output of 'svnlook cat' into some kind of > program or script that validates them, and I suspect that script is > interpreting the contents so that it lists the directory contents as you > described. You should most likely look for the bug in your validation > script. > > -- Brane >