get the current HEAD version of a CVS file on the server

Question

Using the rlog command I can analyze the commit log to a file on the CVS server itself (that is, directly accessing the file ending in ",v"). That's fine.

Is there a similar command line utility that prints the current HEAD version of that file to stdout?

I need this for a custom CVS status utility (something like ViewVC, but made specifically for a certain repository) that will be written in PHP.

Answer 1

To print the content of the file that would be checked out, just use co -p filename. That will print a small header including the revision number to stderr, and the content of the file to stdout.

Answer 2

You probably want cvs log filename. Not sure buy you might need to do cvs update filename first.