How do I delete all untracked files from my working directory in Mercurial?

Question

Is it possible to delete all untracked files from my working directory? Let\'s say I added a bunch of files to my working directory, didn\'t add them via \'hg add\' and now want

Answer 1

This should do the trick:

hg status | grep '^\?' | sed 's/^\? //' | xargs rm -rf

Answer 2

The proper way without purge is:

hg st -un0 | xargs -0 rm

Answer 3

if you don't want to use purge:

rm $(hg st | grep ^? | awk '{print $2}')

Answer 4

You can use

hg purge --all

to remove all the ignored and untracked files

(first you need to install the purge extension as explained in some answers)