Re: RCS locks report

[Hugh Sasse]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Humphrey Chuck 403 wrote:

> We recently converted from using SCCS to RCS for source control.
> 
> Since SCCS creates a p.filename when a file is locked, we were able to
> easily identify all files which were currently locked and by who by
> using a Unix find command from the SCCS root directory such as "ll `find
> . -name p.*`"
> 
> Under RCS this is not possible because the lock status is internal to
> the revision file.  Is there a script available that can do something
> similar?

If you have $Id$ in the files this gets expanded by RCS, see man ident.
Better is rlog, which reports on files, and -L will only report on locked
files.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chuck Humphrey
> Oracle DBA
> 

        HTH
        Hugh