How to do Mercurial's 'hg remove' for all missing files?

Question

I use this to remove a file from the repo:

hg remove  

What command can you use to do an hg remove on

Answer 1

The original question asked how to remove (i.e. forget) files that show up as "!" when using hg st. A direct approach which has the advantage of transparency is to use hg st with the -n option:

hg -v forget $(hg st -nd)

(Of course the files will only be forgotten at the next commit.)

The flags are well-documented elsewhere (e.g. by the hg command itself), but in brief:

• -n means "filename only"
• -d means "select files that have been deleted"