find

Default

None. You must specify one of the following:

• One or more elements, using pname arguments
• One or more VOBs, using the –all option
• All mounted VOBs, using the –avobs option

Processing all VOB elements using –all or –avobs is an order of magnitude faster than going through its entire directory tree by specifying the VOB's root directory as a pname argument. With these options, the order in which elements are processed and/or reported is very different from directory-tree order.

pname ...

One or more file and/or directory elements. find starts with the elements, branches, and versions that are part of the specified file elements and the subtrees under the specified directory elements.

–a/ll

With pname arguments, modifies the meaning of each argument to specify its entire VOB, not just a single file or directory. Without any pname arguments, specifies the VOB containing the current working directory.

Note: When you use find –all, only one instance of an element is reported, even if one or more VOB hard links point to the element. Either the element name or one of the VOB hard links is displayed.

–avo/bs

By default, find starts with all the elements, branches, and versions in all the VOBs mounted on the local host. In a snapshot view, find –avobs issues a warning if all mounted VOBs have not been loaded into the view. This option depends on the MVFS and is ignored on hosts that do not support dynamic views. (You must be in a view context to use find –avobs.)

If the CLEARCASE_AVOBS EV is set to a colon-separated list of VOB tags (in UNIX and Linux; in Windows, list items must be separated by semicolons), this set of VOBs is used instead.

Default

Find only those elements that are visible in the view (–visible ).

–vis/ible

Includes only those elements, along with their branches and versions, that are visible (have a standard path name) in the view.

–nvi/sible

Includes only those elements, along with their branches and versions, that are not visible (do not have a standard path name) in the view.

The following options use the specified criteria to select subsets of objects.

–nam/e pattern

Selects the subset of objects whose element names match the specified file-name pattern. pattern must be a leaf name. (See the wildcards_ccase reference page.)

–dep/th

Causes directory entries to be processed before the directory itself.

–nr/ecurse

For each directory element, selects the objects in the element itself, and in the file and directory elements within it, but does not descend into its subdirectories.

–d/irectory

For each directory, examines only the directory itself, not the directory or file elements, or VOB symbolic links it catalogs.

–cvi/ew

Modifies the set of objects selected by the –element, –branch, and –version queries (if any).

If you did not specify –version, replaces each element and branch with the version that is currently in the view. (No substitution is performed on VOB symbolic links.)

If you did specify –version, further restricts the subset to versions that are currently in the view.

–use/r login-name

Selects only those objects in the subset of elements owned by user login-name.

–gro/up group-name

Selects only those objects in the subset of elements belonging to group group-name.

–typ/e f , –typ/e d, –typ/e l

Selects the subset of objects of a certain kind: file elements (f), directory elements (d), or VOB symbolic links (l). To include multiple kinds of objects, group the key letters into a single argument (–type fd) or use multiple options (–type f –type d).

–fol/low

Traverses VOB symbolic links during the walk of the directory tree.

–kin/d object-selector-kind[,...]

Limits the selection to the specified object kinds. The list of object kinds must be comma-separated, with no spaces. For non-UCM objects, object-selector-kind can assume the values listed below. To list UCM objects, use the commands lsactivity, lscomp, lsfolder, lsproject or lsstream, specifying the option –invob.

• actype
• attype
• baseline
• branch
• brtype
• checkpoint
• dbid
• delem
• do
• domain
• dover
• dver
• eltype
• felem
• fver
• hlink
• hltype
• lbtype
• login
• oid
• pool
• replica
• replicauuid
• role
• rptype
• sibrep
• slink
• state
• sttype
• trtype
• user
• viewdb
• vob
• vobuuid
• wko

Default

find submits the objects it selects to the specified action using extended path names, such as foo.c@@ (element), foo.c@@/main (branch), or foo.c@@/main/5 (version).

–nxn/ame

Removes the extended naming symbol (by default, @@) and any subsequent version ID or branch path name from the name of each selected object. Duplicate names that result from this transformation are suppressed. In effect, this option transforms extended names into standard operating system names; it also transforms names of branches or versions into names of elements.

The options in this section select a subset of objects by using the VOB query language, which is described in the query_language reference page. You can use these options in any combination. They are always applied in this order, successively refining the set of selected objects: 1) –element; 2) –branch; 3) –version. The result of applying one or more of these options is a set of objects at the finest level of granularity: all versions if you used –version; all branches if you used –branch; all elements if you used –element. If you use none of these options, the set includes elements and VOB symbolic links. There is no way to use a query to select a set of VOB symbolic links.

–ele/ment query

Selects element objects using a VOB query; all of the selected element's branches and versions are also selected. Using this option with a brtype query makes find –all much faster in a large VOB where the specified branch type exists on a relatively small number of elements.

–bra/nch query

From the set of objects that survived the element-level query (if any), selects branch objects using a VOB query; all of a selected branch's versions are also selected.

–ver/sion query

From the set of objects that survived the element-level and branch-level queries (if any), selects version objects using a VOB query.

Default

None. You must specify an action to be performed on the selected objects. You can specify a sequence of several actions, using two –exec options, or –exec followed by –print, and so on.

–pri/nt

Lists the names of the selected objects, one per line.

–exe/c command-invocation

All supported platforms: Execute the specified command once for each selected object.

Windows: If you invoke a command built in to the Windows shell (for example, cd, del, dir, or copy), you must invoke the shell with cmd /c. For example:

–exec "cmd /c copy %CLEARCASE_PN% %HOME%"

If a path within command-invocation contains spaces, you must enclose it in quotation marks. For example, in cleartool single-command mode (note the backslash used to escape the second quotation mark):

–exec "cmd /c copy %CLEARCASE_PN% \"c:\find results""

In cleartool interactive mode (no escape character needed):

–exec 'cmd /c copy %CLEARCASE_PN% "c:\find results"'

–ok command-invocation

For each selected object, displays a confirmation prompt; if you respond yes, executes the specified command.

When using the –exec or –ok command invocation, do not use braces ({ }) to indicate a selected object or use a quoted or escaped semicolon to terminate the command. Instead, enter the entire command as a quoted string; use one or more of these environment variables to reference the selected object:

CLEARCASE_PN

Path name of selected element or VOB symbolic link

CLEARCASE_XN_SFX

Extended naming symbol (default: @@)

CLEARCASE_ID_STR

Branch path name of a branch object (\main\rel2_bugfix); version ID of a version object (\main\rel2_bugfix\4); null for an element

CLEARCASE_XPN

Full version-extended path name of the selected branch or version (concatenation of the three preceding variables)