[p4] Find In Files

[Jeff A. Bowles]

With a little programming, you could create a script that uses "p4 print -q"
and tagged output to find the file / line you seek.
In fact, with P4Perl / P4Ruby and a little time, it's not hard at all.

The main thing - it's a biggie - is that it really should be a server-side
primitive.  Transferring the top revision of each [candidate] file is a
messy affair, performance-wise, and you might want to wander through
multiple revisions of the same file also.


   -Jeff Bowles

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Todd Zarnes <todd.zarnes at activant.com>
wrote:

> This only displays lines of text where the word is found...no indication
> of what file it is contained in.  Another tool I once supported had a
> pretty good approach to Find in Files where you can open a 'Check Out'
> of all files in a given directory that contains the word you search on.
>
>
> Todd
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> You may try:
>
>
>
> p4 print -q <//depot/path/of/where/you/want/to/search/...> | grep
> "pattern"
>
> --
>
>
> Todd Zarnes <todd.zarnes at activant.com> wrote:
>
>        Is there a Perforce way to search for a keyword within a
> file...or an
>        easy trick besides performing a sync to head on a branch and
> doing a
>        windows local search?
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