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I have been asked to find every checkin by one specific user across an entire ClearCase Project VOB since a particular date. How might I obtain this information?
I assume it's some usage of the cleartool find command, but I've not yet figured out the syntax to get the information that I'm looking for.

I guess I'm looking for a "change set" across every activity of that user across every stream of a given PVOB since a particular date.

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Looking at cleartool find (which work for versions created with or without UCM), it should be something like:

cleartool find . -user <auser> -version "{created_since(date1)}" -print

This is done within a vob, not a pvob, as it search for version (data), not UCM activities (metadata recorded on PVob level)

You need first to go to a view, preferably a dynamic view:

cd m:\aView\aVob
# unix
cd /view/aview/vobs/avob

As noted by the OP's answer, what works is:

  • using create_by instead of -user,
  • adding -all -nvis.
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  • Thanks for the prompt reply, @VonC! Unfortunately when I start a cleartool find command with a dot following the find command, I get this error: cleartool: Error: Not an object in a vob: ".". – Dynotherm Connector May 12 '16 at 19:07
  • @DynothermConnector Sure: you need first to go into a view. – VonC May 12 '16 at 19:12
  • From this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9691499/i-cant-seem-to-get-cleartools-find-to-work-on-a-simple-query it looks like I needed to navigate down one level from the root of my snapshot view. The command is executing successfully now. Thanks! – Dynotherm Connector May 12 '16 at 19:14
  • The query returns results when I run it on my ClearCase user ID in a snapshot view of a stream that I own; however, it returns no results for the user that I'm looking for. I know the user has made checkins within this VOB -- but the user has not made checkins in this particular stream. Would I need to create a snapshot view of a stream that the other user had created in order to find that user's checkins? – Dynotherm Connector May 12 '16 at 19:22
  • @DynothermConnector try with `-all`: `cleartool find . -all`. Also try with `-nvis`: `cleartool find . -nvis...` – VonC May 12 '16 at 19:31
  • This tip was very helpful. I just posted as an Answer the syntax that I ended up using. Thanks again! – Dynotherm Connector May 13 '16 at 19:30
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With the repeated help of (and huge thanks to) @VonC, here is what I wound up using, at a command prompt (not in a ClearTool session), with my working directory set to the directory just beneath the root of my snapshot view:

cleartool find . -all -name "*" -version "{created_by(<userid>) && created_since(dd-Mmm-yyyy)}" -print > <absolute path to output file>

Update: The command below, which was originally my answer, returns only invisible files:

cleartool find . -all -nvisible -name "*" -version "{created_by(<userid>) && created_since(dd-Mmm-yyyy)}" -print > <absolute path to output file>

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