diff --git a/downloadsites/webtools/getFreshFromCVS.sh b/downloadsites/webtools/getFreshFromCVS.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# This script file is to help get fresh files from cvs
+
+if [[ !("${1}" == "patches" || "${1}" == "downloads" || "${1}" == "committers") ]] ; then
+   echo ""
+   echo "    Usage: ${0} patches | downloads | committers"
+   echo ""
+else
+
+subdir="${1}"
+
+backupdir="${subdir}TempBackup"
+
+echo "  save backup copies ..."
+mkdir $backupdir
+# Note: do not use recurvise, since that would copy all of 'drops'
+cp ${subdir}/* $backupdir
+
+rm ${subdir}/*
+echo "  checking out head of $subdir from cvs ..."
+cvs -Q -d :pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/webtools export -d $subdir -r HEAD releng.wtptools/downloadsites/webtools/$subdir 
+
+echo "  make sure files have proper EOL format ..."
+dos2unix -quiet -keepdate ${subdir}/* > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
+
+fi