[p4] Escaping @ in file specification?

Nathan Fiedler nathanfiedler at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 14:35:51 PDT 2008


Aha, that's so clever. Now if only the site search was a little bit
improved, I could have found that sooner. Thanks

n


On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Ivey, William <william_ivey at bmc.com> wrote:
> It's in the Command Reference:
> http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.081/manuals/cmdref/o.fspecs.html#10
> 40647
>
> There is a table of substitutions for four special characters. for @ it
> is
> %40.
>
> When adding the file you have to use the -f option:
>    p4 add -f //depot/path/status at june.txt
>
> After that, to refer to it explicitly you'll need to use the %40 code.
> It will be translated to @ in the filename in your workspace.
>
> -Wm



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