CLI User's Guide - AccuRev

Techniques for Selecting Elements
The following sections describe techniques for specifying the elements to be processed by a
command, based on AccuRev status, on filename, or both.
Selecting Elements Based on their Status
A few command-line options are recognized by many of the accurev commands, and work
identically (or nearly identically) in each command. These options act as filters, selecting a subset
of the depot’s elements based on their element status. This makes it easy to select sets of elements
for a command to operate on. You can use these filter options alone or in combination with
filename arguments. Examples:
Invoke the keep command on all items in the current directory:
accurev keep *
Invoke the keep command on all items in the current directory with (modified) status.
accurev keep -m *
Invoke the add command on all items in the current directory with (external) status and a .png
filename suffix.
accurev add -x *.png
Invoke the stat command on all items in the workspace, in all directories.
accurev stat -a
The following sections describe useful scenarios of selecting a set of elements in your workspace,
based on the elements’ current status. Be sure to read the section Performance Considerations for
Element-Selection Commands on page 16, also.
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