[p4] extracting files from Perforce WITHOUT a client spec

[Tony Sweeney]

joeblough54.2855795 at bloglines.com wrote:

> Either what I want to do can't be done, or is so obvious I can't see it.
>  
>
Some creative abuse of  'net use' and 'p4 client' might do the trick.  
The usual caveats about network file systems apply.  This presumes that 
you're using Windows.

net use x: \\remote_host\target_dir
<bodge client>
p4 sync //depot/crown_jewels/...

> I would like to be able to extract a directory from perforce and copy it
> to another machine.  (Essentially keeping ALL of my important  bits in 
> Perforce,
> where I can keep a close eye on them)
>
> So for example instead of writing
> something like this in my scripts  (windows based)
>
> robocopy \\myserver\mysoftware\j2sdk1.4.2_05
> \\yourserver\yourshare\j2sdk1.4.2_05
>
> in subversion I would do this
>
> svn
> export http://myserver/mysoftware/j2sdk1.4.2_05 
> \\yourserver\yourshare\j2sdk1.4.2_05
>
>
> is there anyway to do something similar to this in perforce?  ie
>
> p4
> sync //depot/mysoftware/j2sdk1.4.2_05/...  
> \\yourserver\yourshare\j2sdk1.4.2_05
>
>
> Thanks
>
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