Perforce_Command_Line_Recipes.md #1

Helpful Perforce One-liners
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### About This Project

The page contains a list of handy single-line Perforce scripts. Most of
these can easily be converted into custom tools to run from the Perforce
GUIs. If you have a favorite that's not listed here, please share it!

The "shell command" one-liners will run in most generic shells,
including the standard Windows **cmd** prompt, but most require a set of
CLI tools that are only standard on Unix. The free [Cygwin
toolkit](http://www.cygwin.com) is a popular way to get similar versions
of these tools on Windows.

The [Powershell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell)
one-liners do not require Unix tools.

The [px](px "wikilink") commands use an extended command-line client.

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  {{ OnelinerEntry | description=Find all files containing a given expression. (Obsoleted by [p4 grep](http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/grep.html).)| shellcmd=p4 print PATH | grep -e EXPR -e "\^//" | grep -B1 -e EXPR | powershellcmd=p4 print PATH | select-string EXPR,\^//\\w | %{if(\$\_ -match "\^//\\w"){\$f=\$\_}else{if(\$f){\$f;\$f=0};\$\_}} p4 print PATH | select-string EXPR,\^//\\w | %{if(\$\_ -match "\^//\\w"){\$f=\$\_}else{\$\_}} | select @{n="file";e={\$f}},@{n="match";e={\$\_}} | script=//guest/sam\_stafford/scripts/p4find.bat | contributor=Sam Stafford, Philip Kania}}
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