How to find old Clearcase views that no longuer uses?

Question

Be careful I do not ask how to delete a view. I want to find the views that are no longer accessed by anyone.

Answer 1

You can use cleartool lsview, more precisely the -full option

cleartool lsview -l -pro -full aViewTg

With the -full option, reports the following additional properties:

• When and by whom view-private data was last accessed
• When and by whom a view-private object was last updated
• When and by whom the config spec was last updated

Note that won't catch all usecase of a view, as mentioned in "About the "Last Accessed" time stamp in cleartool lsview output"

You can combine that with "Listing active views on UNIX"

cleartool lsview -host your-computer-name

And you can pipe the result to describe the properties of each view.

You can see examples of such scripts in "Windows Equivalent of Unix Shell Script"

for i in $list; do
    cleartool lsview -l -prop -full $i | grep "Last accessed" >& /dev/null
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
         echo -n $i
         echo " " `cleartool lsview -reg ccase_win -l -prop -full $i | grep "Last accessed" | awk '{print $3}'`
    else
         echo $i cannot be found
    fi
done