I often need to add a lot new files to my subversion repository, especially when updating many modules in Drupal. When new files exist all over the directory structure, you can't do a simple svn add. In comes the magic of the UNIX command line, with a combination of svn, grep, and awk tied together with pipes:

svn st | grep ^? | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn add

One of the more arduous manual tasks with the Drupal permissions system is when you need to create a user role with most or all of the permissions selected. To do this manually is a pain; for our simple site with Views, CCK, and several optional core modules enabled we have 60+ permission checkboxes. To click all of those is unnecessary manual work. That's what we have computers for!

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