RCSCLEAN(1)                                           RCSCLEAN(1)


NAME
       rcsclean - clean up working files

SYNOPSIS
       rcsclean [rcsdiff options] [file ... ]

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 no difference, it  removes  the  working
       file,  and,  if the revision was locked, unlocks the revi-
       sion.

       If no file is given, all  working  files  in  the  current
       directory are cleaned.  Any other options are passed along
       to rcsdiff for the comparison.

       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.

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.

DIAGNOSTICS
       The  exit  status is 0 if there were no differences in any
       file under RCS control, 1 if there were differences, and 2
       if there were errors.

IDENTIFICATION
       Author: Walter F. Tichy.
       Revision Number: 1.2; Release Date: 1992/01/04.
       Copyright (C) 1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy.
       Copyright (C) 1990 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.

BUGS
       RCS file names may not be given as arguments.




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RCSCLEAN(1)                                           RCSCLEAN(1)


       Any diagnostics generated by rcsdiff when comparing  files
       are discarded.

       If the latest revision is already unlocked, and you have a
       lock on an  earlier  revision,  the  earlier  revision  is
       unlocked.

       rcsclean  is  just  an  optional example shell script, and
       should not be taken too seriously.
















































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