Cleaning up uncommitted subversion working folders

Today I stumbled across an unused working folder in a dark and dusty corner of one of our development servers. The directory had a couple of dozen un-checked in changes. Some were from barely a month ago while others dated back years. Not wanting to discard any important modifirations I cobbled together a bash command to show me when each file was last modified (the file's mtime).

for CHANGED in $(svn status | sed "s/^.......//" | awk "/.\./"); do
    echo $CHANGED;
    ls -l "$CHANGED";
done | cat > changes.txt

The sed naively removes the first nine characters from the file status from the svn status output, which should just leave the file name.

The awk removes all files and paths without an extension - this was necessary because I later fed the output through ls, and I didn't want any folder listings.

The cat allows me to direct the output to a file. If you aren't piping to a file then you can omit that part.

Finally, ls -l shows the mtime of the file. To show the atime I could have used ls -lu, though the results of this were a little inconsistant for me (some times were after the mtime, which seemed counter-intuative). I used ls because I couldn't seem to find a replacement for stat that was available on a vanilla Solaris install.

If you're on a Linux box the following should work just as well (without trying to filter by extension):

for CHANGED in $(svn status | sed "s/^.......//"); do
   stat "$CHANGED";
done | cat > changes.txt

Of course, I'm still new to bash coding so if you have a script that simplifies this I'd love to hear about it.