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rcsclean(1)
Free Software Foundation
NAME
  rcsclean - clean up working files

SYNOPSIS
  rcsclean [options] [file...]

OPTIONS
  -ksubst
      Use subst style keyword substitution when retrieving the revision for
      comparison. See co(1) for details.

  -n[rev]
      Do not actually remove any files or unlock any revisions.	 Using this
      option will tell you what rcsclean would do without actually doing it.

  -q[rev]
      Do not log the actions taken on standard output.

  -r[rev]
      This option has no effect other than specifying the revision for
      comparison.

  -u[rev]
      Unlock the revision if it is locked and no difference is found.

  -Vn Emulate RCS version n. See co(1) for details.

  -xsuffixes
      Use suffixes to characterize RCS files. See ci(1) for details.

DESCRIPTION
  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 a difference, it does nothing.
  Otherwise, it first unlocks the revision if the -u option is given, and
  then removes the working file unless the working file is writable and the
  revision is locked.  It logs its actions by outputting the corresponding
  rcs -u and rm -f commands on the standard output.

  If no file is given, all working files in the current directory are
  cleaned. Pathnames matching an RCS suffix denote RCS files; all others
  denote working files. Names are paired as explained in ci(1).

  The number of the revision to which the working file is compared may be
  attached to any of the options -n, -q, -r, or -u. If no revision number is
  specified, then if the -u option is given and the caller has one revision
  locked, rcsclean uses that revision; otherwise rcsclean uses the latest
  revision on the default branch, normally the root.

  rcsclean is useful for clean targets in Makefiles. See also rcsdiff(1),
  which prints out the differences, and ci(1), which normally asks whether to
  check in a file if it was not changed.

RESTRICTIONS
  At least one file must be given in older Unix versions that do not provide
  the needed directory scanning operations.

EXAMPLES
       rcsclean	 *.c  *.h

  removes all working files ending in .c or .h that were not changed since
  their checkout.

       rcsclean

  removes all working files in the current directory that were not changed
  since their checkout.

ENVIRONMENT
  RCSINIT
      options prepended to the argument list, separated by spaces.  A
      backslash escapes spaces within an option. The RCSINIT options are
      prepended to the argument lists of most RCS commands. Useful RCSINIT
      options include -q, -V, and -x.

DIAGNOSTICS
  The exit status is zero if and only if all operations were successful.
  Missing working files and RCS files are silently ignored.

FILES
  rcsclean accesses files much as ci(1) does.

IDENTIFICATION
  Author: Walter F. Tichy.
  Revision Number: 1.1.6.2; Release Date: 1993/10/07.
  Copyright  1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy.
  Copyright  1990, 1991 by Paul Eggert.

SEE ALSO
  ci(1), co(1), ident(1), rcs(1), rcsdiff(1), rcsintro(1), rcsmerge(1),
  rlog(1), rcsfile(5)

  Walter F. Tichy, RCS--A System for Version Control, Software--Practice &
  Experience 15, 7 (July 1985), 637-654.

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