rmfolder

Remove a folder

Applicability

Product

Command type

ClearCase®

cleartool subcommand

Platform

UNIX®
Linux®

Windows®
Parent topic: Cleartool subcommands for UCM
Parent topic: Rational ClearCase command reference

Synopsis

rmfolder [ –c/omment comment | –cfi/le comment-file-pname | –cq/uery
| –cqe/ach | –nc/omment ]

[ –f/orce ] folder-selector ...

Description

The rmfolder command deletes one or more folders.

Restrictions

Identities

You must have one of the following identities:

  • Folder owner
  • Project VOB owner
  • root (UNIX and Linux)
  • Member of the ClearCase administrators group (ClearCase on Windows only)

Locks

An error occurs if one or more of these objects are locked: the project VOB, the folder.

Mastership

(Replicated VOBs only) Your current replica must master the folder.

Other

You cannot delete a folder if it contains any projects or other folders, or is the RootFolder.

Options and arguments

Event records and comments

Default
Creates one or more event records, with commenting controlled by your .clearcase_profile file (default: –nc). See the comments reference page. Comments can be edited with chevent.
–c/omment comment | –cfi/le comment-file-pname |–cq/uery | –cqe/ach | –nc/omment
Overrides the default with the option you specify. See the comments reference page.

Confirmation step

Default
Prompts for confirmation that the specified folder is to be deleted.
–f/orce
Suppresses the confirmation step.

Specifying the folder

Default
None.
folder-selector ...
Specifies one or more folders to delete.

folder-selector is of the form [folder:]folder-name[@vob-selector], where vob-selector specifies the folder's project VOB.

Examples

The UNIX system and Linux examples in this section are written for use in csh. If you use another shell, you may need to use different quoting and escaping conventions.

The Windows examples that include wildcards or quoting are written for use in cleartool interactive mode. If you use cleartool single-command mode, you may need to change the wildcards and quoting to make your command interpreter process the command appropriately.

In cleartool single-command mode, cmd-context represents the UNIX system and Linux shells or Windows command interpreter prompt, followed by the cleartool command. In cleartool interactive mode, cmd-context represents the interactive cleartool prompt.

Remove a folder that contains a subfolder, moving the subfolder to a new location.

  1. Issue the rmfolder command:

    cmd-context rmfolder –f top
    cleartool: Error: Cannot remove folder that has sub projects or folders.
    cleartool: Error: Unable to remove folder "top".

  2. Use lsfolder to find subprojects or folders for the specified folder:

    cmd-context lsfolder –l topfolder "top"
    2007-09-07T10:20:08 by Smith
      "My Top Level Folder."
      owner: Smith
      group: user
      title: Top
      contains folders:
        parsers
      contains projects:

  3. Move the subfolder to a new location:

    cmd-context chfolder –to RootFolder parsers
    Changed folder "parsers".

  4. Reissue the rmfolder command:

    cmd-context rmfolder top
    Remove folder "top"?  [no] yes
    Removed folder "top".

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