Command line to delete all ClearCase view-private files

Question

I\'m looking for a command line to remove all view-private files and directories from a ClearCase view on Windows. I have Cygwin available as well.

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Answer 1

I ended up using this command in Cygwin:

cleartool ls -recurse -view_only | sed -e 's:\\:/:g' | xargs rm -r

The sed is necessary to change the Windows-style paths output by cleartool into Unix-style paths. There's probably a more efficient command out there. This one throws a lot of errors, because it deletes the directory, and then any previously found view-private files underneath that directory will be not found by rm. But you get the right result in the end.

EDIT: VonC points out that this only works with dynamic ClearCase views