[p4] Detecting if a client exists (cheaply)

[Roy Smith]

How about:

% p4 files //spec/client/smithr3-xxx.p4s
//spec/client/smithr3-xxx.p4s - no such file(s).

The only problem is is looks like you need to pattern match stdout  
for "no such file"; the exit code is 0 whether the client exists or not.

On Feb 6, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Brad Holt wrote:

> Can't seem to find a quick way to do it.  I can dump the list and  
> check, but this will be part of a tool that may want to check  
> frequently, and for those folks on the other side of the world,  
> this would gum up the works.
>
> Running "p4 client testclient" will create a new "testclient" if it  
> does not exist.  Trying to delete a client that's not your will  
> throw a useful error either way (whether it exists or not), but if  
> that client is actually yours or ownerless, then you can  
> accidentally delete it.  I tried using "p4 client -t testclient"  
> which was useful if the client to use as a template did not exist,  
> but was actually very strange if it did.  The usual array of passed  
> in flags (-s, -ztag, etc) yielded nothing useful.
>
> One of you has surely sorted this out already surely.  Gimme.
>
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