[p4] looking for a script to create a form-out trigger on the changelist form

[G. Matthew Rice]

<markm at emeter.com> writes:
> Does anyone have a script that creates a pre-defined string (template)
> in the changelist description field? And then also a script that will
> validate that string is contained in a submitted changelist description?

You probably won't get an answer to this with a script because the solution
is fairly simple (with Unix and Unix-like tools).

For the form-out trigger just do something like:

        sed 's/<enter description here>/your string/' <in >out

(use the -i option to sed if you don't want to mess with temporary files).

If you want to keep the <enter desc...> string, try something like:

        sed '/<enter description here>/{p;c\
                my text
        }'


On the way in, just use grep to see if the string is still there.

HTH,        
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