Command line to delete all ClearCase view-private files

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A few remarks:

  • ct lsprivate is great for dynamic views, not snapshot views
  • ct ls -rec -view_only as well as ct lsprivate also list your checked-out files… I am not sure you want to delete those…

For listing private files (only private ones, not hijacked ones you may want to keep), you need to have a command that:

  • takes into account spaces in name
  • does not list checkouts or hijacked or eclipsed files or symlinks
  • works for both snapshot and dynamic views

  • (bonus) does not depend on external shell commands

    for /F "usebackq delims=" %i in (`cleartool ls -r ^| find /V "Rule:" ^| find /V "hijacked" ^| find /V "eclipsed" ^| find /V "-->"`) do @echo "%i"

That lists all your private files (skipping the hijacked/eclipsed/checked-out or non-private ones as well as symlinks) in a pure Windows way (no external shell dependency needed).
Replace @echo "%i" by del /F "%i" and they are gone.
Note the double quotes around %i, in order to display/remove properly files with spaces in their name.
Also note the absence of the cleartool parameter -nxn, as symlinks would otherwise be indistinguishable and view-private files are not being decorated anyway.

In order to also get rid of private directories, first run the command with rmdir /S /Q "%i" and then with del /F "%i".

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