[p4] Can't add filenames with wildcards [@#%*] in them.

[Gabor Maghera]

This may help: http://kb.perforce.com/UserTasks/AddingADirectoryTree

On Dec 10, 2007 11:28 AM, Gabor Maghera <gmaghera at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, it's the ... that's causing it.  The ellipsis in p4 add is expanded by
> your file system, not by Perforce.  So it is not working as a wildcard.  Try
> using * instead - yeah, I know it's not recursive, but a shell script can
> help with that.
>
> Gabor
>
>
> On Dec 10, 2007 11:22 AM, Roy Smith <smith_roy at emc.com> wrote:
>
> >  That just gets me:
> > free:2.5.1$ p4 add -n -f ...
> > Can't add filenames with wildcards [@#%*] in them.
> > Use -f option to force add.
> >
> >
> > On Dec 10, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Gabor Maghera wrote:
> >
> > Try using p4 add -n -f ...
> >
> > The -f flag will allow files with special characters in their filename
> > and the -n flag will display which files would be opened for add without
> > making any changes.  Then browse through the output of the command.
> >
> > Take a look at the help for p4 add before doing this, as the special
> > characters in the filenames are going to be formatted into hex
> > representation. Not sure if the p4 add output will show you the original
> > file names or the modified one.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gabor
> >
> > On Dec 10, 2007 10:53 AM, Roy Smith <smith_roy at emc.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying add a new source tree to my depot by doing "p4 add ...",
> > > but get the message:
> > >
> > > Can't add filenames with wildcards [@#%*] in them.
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell, I don't have any filenames with those
> > > characters in them.  Is there any way to have p4 tell me exactly
> > > which pathnames it's not happy with?
> > >
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> >   -------------------
> > Roy Smith <smith_roy at emc.com>
> > Software Guy, EMC Common Management Group
> > 44 South Broadway, 7th floor
> > White Plains, NY 10601
> > (914) 580-3427
> > AIM: roysmith649
> >
> >
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