Important commands in IBM Clearcase

• Create a view using any of the following commands:
  

  $ ct mkview -tag VIEWNAME /net/McName/cc_view/VIEWNAME.vws -nsh -stgloc stgloc_views (Here nsh is for unsharable views and stgloc_views is for IQviews.)
  $ create_view VIEWNAME -dev

• Set the created view using any of the following commands:
  

  $ sv VIEWNAME
  $ct setview VIEWNAME

• List views
  

  $ ct lsview | grep singhai (singhai is regular expression to search for in VIEWNAME)

• Edit config spec
  

  $ ct edcs

• Remove a view
  

  $ ct rmview /net/McName/cc_view/VIEWNAME.vws

• Check the current view
  

  $ ct pwv

• View the currently accessed versions of a file
  

  $ ct ls -l FILENAME

• Checkout a file
  

  $ ct -unr FILENAME (unr is for unreserved file)

• Un-checkout a file : Cancels a checkout
  

  $ ct unco FILENAME

• View the checkedout files
  

  $ ct lsco -l -cvi -r (l for long, cvi for current view, r for recursive, s for short)

• View the differences between versions of a file using any of the following commands:
  

  $ ctdiff FILENAME
  $ ct diff -pre -ser FILENAME
  $ ct diff -ser FILENAME FILENAME/main@@/LATEST

• Rename a view using following sequence of commands:
  

  $ ct endview -server OLDVIEWNAME
  $ ct rmtag -view OLDVIEWNAME
  $ ct unregister -view OLDLOCATION
  $ mv OLDLOCATION NEWLOCATION
  $ ct register -view NEWLOCATION
  $ ct mktag -view -tag NEWVIEWNAME NEWLOCATION