rcsclean - clean up working files rcsclean [ -rrev ] [ -qrev ] file... Rcsclean removes working files that were checked out and never modified. For each file given, rcsclean compares the working file and a revision in the corresponding RCS file. If it finds no difference, it removes the working file, and, if the revision was locked by the caller, unlocks the revision.

A file name ending in ',v' is an RCS file name, otherwise a working file name. Rcsclean derives the working file name from the RCS file name and vice versa, as explained in co (1L). Pairs consisting of both an RCS and a working file name may also be specified.

Rev specifies with which revision the working file is compared. If rev is omitted, rcsclean compares the working file with the latest revision on the default branch (normally the highest branch on the trunk). The option -q suppresses diagnostics.

Rcsclean is useful for "clean" targets in Makefiles. Note that rcsdiff (1L) prints out the differences. Also, ci (1L) normally asks whether to check in a file if it was not changed.

The command

 rcsclean *.c *.h

removes all working files ending in ".c" or ".h" that were not changed since their checkout. The exit status is 0 if there were no differences during the last comparison or if the last working file did not exist, 1 if there were differences, and 2 if there were errors. \\$2 .. Author: Walter F. Tichy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907. Revision Number: .VL $Revision: 1.2 $ ; Release Date: .VL $Date: 89/05/02 11:15:26 $ . Copyright \(co 1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy. co(1L), ci(1L), ident(1L), rcs(1L), rcsdiff(1L), rcsintro(1L), rcsmerge(1L), rlog(1L), rcsfile(5L).