Here's a couple of little perl scripts I use on a day to day basis, they simply beautify the output of command line CVS client program. I'm not a perl programmer so I'm sure there are much better ways of doing this, any suggestions are welcome. I also haven't tested either of them on anything but cygwin/winXP, cvs 1.11.17 and perl 5.8.7.

file: cvs-update

This little script simply takes the output from cvs update and removes most of the useless information and colours the remaining output, leaving something like this.

U docs/README
P docs/INSTALLM
M docs/FAQ
C docs/TODO

file: cvs-editors

This script takes the output of cvs editors and formats the output neatly in an ascii table, like this.

+--------------+---------+--------------------------+---------+
| File         | User    | Date                     | Host    |
+--------------+---------+--------------------------+---------+
| docs/README  | davem   | Mon Aug 14 10:04:56 2006 | lando   |
+--------------+---------+--------------------------+---------+
| docs/FAQ     | davem   | Mon Jul 31 14:38:12 2006 | lando   |
+--------------+---------+--------------------------+---------+
| docs/TODO    | davem   | Mon Jul 31 14:34:56 2006 | lando   |
+--------------+---------+--------------------------+---------+
| docs/INSTALL | davem   | Mon Jul 31 14:04:31 2006 | hansolo |
+--------------+---------+--------------------------+---------+