If you’re working on a project, and you’ve copied in or created a whole bunch of new files, you might find it tedious to manually add each of them. Here’s the quick command you can use instead:

svn status | grep "^\?" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn add

The svn status part of the command will list out all changes, then we grep for the ? at the beginning of the line indicating that it’s an external file, then run it through awk to grab the filename, and finally pass the lot to svn add using xargs.