cleartool to find more than one type of file

Question

I would like to describe all batch AND executable files with a cleartool command. I can do this for one type of file :

cleartool find "Z:\PATH" -name *.bat -exec "cleartool describe %%CLEARCASE_PN%%"

But I can't find any way to do it for both types of files. I could duplicate the line, but this is not a good solution because of poor performance. I have tried surrounding with single or double quotes, with pipe or double pipe, but nothing works (-name "*.bat, .exe", -name (.bat || *.exe), etc.). Is there any solution ?

Thanks

Answer 1

The easiest way is to find all files, and test in the exec directive if the extension if the one expected:

cleartool find "Z:\PATH" -type f -exec "myscript %%CLEARCASE_PN%%"

With myscript a script written in the language of your choice, testing the file extension and calling cleartool describe if that extension matches.

Note the -type f, to limit the search for the files only (not the folders).

For instance, in Perl (and calling cleartool from Perl):

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Basename;

$file=$ARGV[0];
my ($dir, $name, $ext) = fileparse($file, @exts);

if ($file ~= /bat|exe) {
  system("cleartool describe $file");
}