The page contains a list of handy one line Perforce commands. Most of these can easily be converted into scripts to run from the Perforce GUIs as custom tools. If you have a favorite, please share it with the community! Many of these one liners require a set of Unix tools; the free Cygwin toolkit is one popular solution on Windows. PowerShell examples of many of these commands appear at the bottom of this page. They do not require Unix tools.
| Description
| Delete all empty submitted changelists.
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| Command
| p4 changes -s submitted | cut -d " " -f 2 | xargs -n1 p4 change -d -f
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| Contributor
| Sam Stafford
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| Description
| Find all files containing a given expression. (Variant: to search all revisions use p4 annotate -a instead of p4 print.)
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| Command
| p4 print PATH | grep -e EXPR -e "^//" | grep -B1 -e EXPR
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| Script
| p4find.bat
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| Contributor
| Sam Stafford
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| Description
| List all files opened on any client owned by USER, without using p4 opened -a.
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| Command
| p4 -Ztag clients | grep -B3 "... Owner USER" | grep "... client" | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | xargs -n1 p4 opened -C
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| Contributor
| Sam Stafford
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| Description
| List all changelists that contributed via integration to target change CHANGE.
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| Command
| p4 files @CHANGE,@CHANGE | sed s/#.*/@CHANGE/ | p4 -x - filelog -m1 | grep "^\.\.\. \.\.\." | grep -v "into" | grep -v "ignored by" | sed "s/.*\/\//\/\//" | p4 -x - changes
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| Contributor
| Sam Stafford
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| Description
| Delete all jobs matching the pattern "job=DELETEME*".
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| Command
| p4 jobs -e "job=DELETEME*" | cut -d " " -f 1 | xargs -n 1 p4 job -d
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| Contributor
| Sam Stafford
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| Description
| Get the latest version only for files you already have a copy of in your workspace
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| Command
| p4 sync <path>#have,head
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| Script
| haveSync.pl
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| Contributor
| Matt Attaway
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| Description
| Open all the files in a submitted changelist for edit
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| Command
| p4 files ...@<change num>,<change num> | sed s/\#.*// | p4 -x - edit
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| Script
| editFilesInChange.bat
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| Contributor
| Matt Attaway
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| Description
| Returns output if and only if USER has access to FILE. (Doesn't necessarily work with wildcards.)
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| Command
| p4 protects -u USER FILE | tail -n1 | grep -e " //"
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| Contributor
| Sam Stafford
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| Description
| Simple triggers entry to enforce revertunchanged SubmitOption on client specs.
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| Command
| ru form-in client "sed -i -e s/submitunchanged/revertunchanged/ %formfile%"
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| Contributor
| Sam Stafford
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| Description
| List all new files under the current directory not opened for add.
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| Command
| dir /b /s /a-d | p4 -Ztag -x - add -nf | grep "clientFile" | cut -c16-
find . -type f -print | p4 -Ztag -x - add -nf | grep "clientFile" | cut -c16-
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| Contributor
| Sam Stafford
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| Description
| Delete all empty submitted changelists. (PowerShell example)
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| Command
| p4 changes -s submitted | %{p4 change -d -f $_.split()[1]}
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| Contributor
| Philip Kania
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| Description
| Find all files containing a given expression. (PowerShell example)
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| Command
| p4 print PATH | select-string EXPR,^// | %{if($_ -match "^//"){$f=$_}else{if($f){$f;$f=0};$_}}
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| Contributor
| Philip Kania
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| Description
| List all files opened on any client owned by USER, without using p4 opened -a. (PowerShell example)
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| Command
| p4 clients -uUSER | %{p4 opened -C $_.split()[1]}
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| Contributor
| Philip Kania
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| Description
| List all changelists that contributed via integration to target change CHANGE. (PowerShell example)
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| Command
| p4 files "@CHANGE,@CHANGE" | %{$_ -replace "#.*","@CHANGE"} | p4 -x - filelog -m1 | select-string "^\.\.\. \.\.\." | ?{$_ -notmatch "into" -and $_ -notmatch "ignored by"} | %{$_ -replace ".*//","//"} | p4 -x - changes
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| Contributor
| Philip Kania
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| Description
| Delete all jobs matching the pattern "job=DELETEME*". (PowerShell example)
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| Command
| p4 jobs -e "job=DELETEME*" | %{p4 job -d $_.split()[0]}
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| Contributor
| Philip Kania
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| Description
| Open all the files in a submitted changelist for edit (PowerShell example)
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| Command
| p4 files ...@<change num>,<change num> | %{$_.split("#")[0]} | p4 -x - edit
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| Contributor
| Philip Kania
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| Description
| Returns True if and only if USER has access to FILE. (PowerShell example)
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| Command
| p4 protects -u USER FILE | select-string " //" -quiet
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| Contributor
| Philip Kania
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| Description
| List all new files under the current directory not opened for add. (PowerShell example)
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| Command
| gci -recurse | ?{-not $_.PSIsContainer} | %{$_.FullName} | p4 -ztag -x - add -nf | select-string "clientFile" | %{([string]$_).substring(15)}
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| Contributor
| Philip Kania
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