[p4] Changing owenr for multiple client specs

[Mohsin Saleem Khan]

It works like magic, thanks. I think I m really getting old :(

Regards

Mohsin Saleem Khan






"David Weintraub" <qazwart at gmail.com> 
11/30/2006 08:02 PM

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"Mohsin Saleem Khan" <MKhan at lmkr.com>
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Re: [p4] Changing owenr for multiple client specs






> cat testmesed | sed 's/Owner:  mshaaf/Owner:  mkhan/'

What are you getting? We need to know exactly what you're expecting,
and what you were getting.

First of all, you could simply do this:

    $ sed 's/Owner:  mshaaf/Owner:  mkhan/' testmesed

And, save yourself some typing.

Next, between "Owner:" and "mshaaf", is that a tab or a single space?
If it is a space, it won't work because Perforce puts a tab in there.

Now, I think what you really want to do is something like this:

    $ p4 client -o <client> | sed 's/^Owner:.*$/Owner: mkhan/' | p4 client 
-i

or for your test:

    $ p4 client -o <client> | sed 's/^Owner:.*$/Owner: mkhan/' | tee 
client.out

Then you can examine the "client.out" file to see if it is what you want.

The "^Owner:.*$" says to match a line that begins with "Owner:". The
".*$" matches the rest of the line. The "s" command in sed is a
substitution command, so you're replacing the selected line with
"Owner: mkhan".

On 11/30/06, Mohsin Saleem Khan <MKhan at lmkr.com> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
>  Some one ( a very good person) send me a sed on liner to change client
> Owner value in multiple client specs in a single go. Can any one has any
> idea what I may be missing. I am not v good with sed
>
> cat testmesed | sed 's/Owner:  mshaaf/Owner:  mkhan/'
>
> Regards
>
> Mohsin Saleem Khan
>
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