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Im pretty stupid when in comes to bash and I was hoping someone could help me.

I would like to take the output of

hg resolve -l

which is in the format

R somefile/filename
U somefile/filename
R somefile/filename
U somefile/filename

and be able to use the first line that starts with a 'U' as an argument, so i could do things like

open -t <first U file>

and 

hg resolve -m <first U file>

it would be great it someone could give me some pointers about the best way to do this!

Thanks

EDIT: solution from answers below, a simple script. Thanks guys!

#!/bin/bash

# Script that gets the first file from hg resolve | grep U and passes to default text editor

first_u_file=$(hg resolve -l | grep -m1 '^U')
first_u_file=${first_u_file#U }
echo opening \'$first_u_file\'
open -t "$first_u_file"
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echo "opening '$first_u_file'" - you don't need to escape the single quotes and the variable gets properly quoted. –  Dennis Williamson May 31 '12 at 11:16

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With GNU grep, you can try this (untested):

first_u_file=$(hg resolve -l | grep -m1 '^U')
first_u_file=${first_u_file#U }

-mX tells grep to stop after printing X lines, 1 in this case. The $(...) construct is similar to backticks, it turns output into a string. The second line removes "U " from the beginning of the file name.

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where does this need to live? is this an alias? sorry for my minimal understanding!! –  Dori May 31 '12 at 9:14
    
@Dori You can now use the variable, as in open -t "$first_u_file" and so on. –  choroba May 31 '12 at 9:31
    
+1 great thanks! it works!! So whats going on here? If i enter the above first_u_file lines in bash it works, i tried to put them in bash_profile and it does not work. How can store this permenantly in some config file? –  Dori May 31 '12 at 9:45
    
@Dori What exactly do you need to keep stored? –  choroba May 31 '12 at 9:51
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@Dori: Functions and commands only return their exit status, not string. But you can create a script or a function that prints (echo-es) the value and then run open -t $(grab_first_file_name). –  choroba May 31 '12 at 10:26
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Rather than just open the first file, your script could iterate over all unresolved files:

#!/bin/bash

while read; do
    file="${REPLY#U }"
    echo "Opening '$file'"
    open -t "$file"      
    hg resolve -m "$file"
done <( hg resolve -l | grep "^U" )

(I'm not familiar with hg; would hg resolve -aln give you just the list of unresolved files without the "U" prefix? That would do away with the need for the grep and the U-stripping step.)

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A simpler solution:

u_file=$( hg resolve -l | awk '/^U/{print $2; exit}' )
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hg resolve -l | egrep '^U.*' | head -n 1

the output is the first U file

to use it as open argument with "U" dropped:

firstUfile=`hg resolve -l | egrep '^U.*' | head -n 1 | sed -e 's/^U\s+\(.*\)$/"\1"/'`
open -t $firstUfile
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+1 thanks, a good start. So how do I use this as an input for open -t. I need to remove the 'U ' also I presume –  Dori May 31 '12 at 9:11
    
I've edited to include U removal, I've put double quotes around the filename in case it has spaces, if you don't need it, feel free to remove from the sed substitution –  LeleDumbo May 31 '12 at 9:21
    
this does not seem to remove the 'U ' ? Do i jut put this in .bash_proile with a preceeding alias ? –  Dori May 31 '12 at 9:30
    
ah i see, its a variable, ok! executing that string of piped commands still gives me the preceeding U :( –  Dori May 31 '12 at 9:40

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