Question

I am following the Windows Cookbook and have reached step 7-Relocking RCS files.

I complete the following steps successfully:

 cd /twiki/data

$ : Make a backup of all files
$ tar czvf all-files.tar.gz */*

But this next perl command fails because of a file-not-found error:

$ : Test edit a single file to check your typing
$ perl -pi~~~ -e 'NR <= 10 && s/nobody:/system:/ ' Main/WebIndex.txt,v

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The .txt files in the Main directory are not followed by a ,v. Did I miss some critical installation step? I am a newbie, so I hope this isn't too stupid of a problem! Thanks in advance for any help

Environment

TWiki version:	TWikiRelease01Feb2003
TWiki plugins:	DefaultPlugin, EmptyPlugin, InterwikiPlugin
Server OS:	Win XP
Web server:	Apache 2.0.49
Perl version:	5.6.1
Client OS:	Win XP
Web Browser:	IE 6.x

-- TimBjokne - 17 Jun 2004

Answer

If you have no files in the data/Main/ which end in .txt,v then you don't need to relock, as there is nothing there to relock. The ,v files are where the revision history for each topic is stored. For a new install, for a lot of people, it doesn't matter if the history prior to your deployment exists. The ,v files will automatically be created on the next topic edit if they don't exist (and the revision number starts over again at r1.1).

-- MattWilkie - 17 Jun 2004