p4 fstat

Dump file information in a tagged format that is suitable for parsing by scripts.

Syntax

p4 [g-opts] fstat [-F filter -L -T fields -m max -r] [-c|-e change]  
                  [-Ox -Rx -Sx] [-A pattern] [-U] FileSpec[revRange] ...
p4 [g-opts] fstat [-F filter -T fields -m max -r] [-c|-e change]  
                  [-Ox -Rx -Sx] [-A pattern] [--streamviews] FileSpec[revRange] ...

where x represents the second letter in an option such as -On

Syntax conventions

Description

The p4 fstat command dumps information about each file, with information for each field on a separate line. The output is best used within a Helix C/C++ API application, where the items can be accessed as variables, but the output is also suitable for parsing by scripts.

The only argument required for the p4 fstat command is the FileSpec argument.

The p4 fstat command has options to limit the set of files operated on and to determine how information is displayed.

To change the field on which output is sorted, use one of the -Sx options, and to reverse sort order, use the -r option.
To limit the output to the first max files, use the -m max option.
To filter the output of the form fields, use the -F filter option. For example, all files larger than a certain size and with a certain filetype An attribute that determines how the server stores and diffs a particular file. Examples of file types are text and binary..
To limit output to the set of fields specified in a fields argument, use the -T fields option. The list of field names can be separated by spaces or commas.

The head type fields, for example, headTime, return information for the file revision provided for the file argument. If no specific revision is given, it returns information for the head revision. See also the Timestamp and Unix epoch time information.

Form Fields

The fields shown vary depending on which file is selected.

Field Name	Description	Example/Notes
`attr-name`	Attribute value with the `-Oa` option. In some cases the value might be huge. Attribute location with the `-On` option. The location might be the `db.traits` table, or the `.p4traits` depot for huge attributes.	`attr-myAttr critical` or `attr-preview`
`attrProp-name`	Set if `attr-name` is a propagating attribute	`attrProp-myAttr`
`clientFile`	Local path to file (in local syntax by default, or in Helix Core Server syntax with the `-Op` option) For files containing the special characters `@`, `#`, `*`, and `%`, the `clientFile` displays the special character.	`/staff/userid/src/file.c` (or `//workspace/src/file.c` in Helix Core Server syntax)
`depotFile`	Depot path to file. For files containing the special characters `@`, `#`, `*`, and `%`, the filename is displayed containing the ASCII expression of the character’s hexadecimal value.	`//depot/src/file.c`
`movedFile`	Name in depot of moved to/from file	`//depot/src/file.c`
`path`	Local path to file	`//workspace/src/file.c`
`isMapped`	Set if the file is mapped to current client workspace	`isMapped`
`shelved`	Set if file is shelved	`shelved`
`headAction`	Action taken at head revision, if in depot	one of `add`, `edit`, `delete`, `branch`, `move/add`, `move/delete`, `integrate`, `import`, `purge`, or `archive`.
`headChange`	Head revision changelist number, if in depot	`124`
`headRev`	Head revision number, if in depot	`124`
`headType`	Head revision type, if in depot	text, `binary`, `text+k`, etc. (see File types.)
`headCharset`	Head charset	for unicode files
`headTime`	Head revision changelist time, if in depot. Time is measured in seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970	919283152 is a date in early 1999
`headModTime`	Head revision modification time (the time that the file was last modified on the client before submit), if in depot.	919280483 is a date in early 1999
`movedRev`	Head revision of moved file	`157`
`haveRev`	Revision last synced to workspace, if on workspace	`23`
`desc`	Changelist description (if using `-e changelist` and if the file was part of `changelist`)	A Helix Core Server changelist
`digest`	MD5 digest of a file (requires `-Ol` option)	A 32 hexadecimal digit string. Based on the normalized (UNIX linefeed convention) and uncompressed version of the depot file, regardless of how the file is represented when synced to a client workspace.
`fileSize`	File length in bytes (requires `-Ol` option)	`63488` Based on the normalized (UNIX linefeed convention) and uncompressed version of the depot file, regardless of how the file is represented when synced to a client workspace.
`action`	Open action, if opened in your workspace	one of `add`, `edit`, `delete`, `branch`, `move/add`, `move/delete`, `integrate`, `import`, `purge`, or `archive`.
`type`	Open type, if opened in your workspace	A Helix Core Server file type
`charset`	Open charset	(for unicode files)
`actionOwner`	User who opened the file, if open	A Helix Core Server username
`workRev`	open revision, if opened
`change`	Open changelist number, if opened in your workspace	`75331`
`resolved`	The number, if any, of resolved integration records	`5`
`unresolved`	The number, if any, of unresolved integration records	`2`
`reresolvable`	The number, if any, of re-resolvable integration records	`1`
`otherOpen`	The number of other users who have the file open, blank if no other users have the file open	1, `2`, `3`… `n`, preceded by `n` records listing the users (`0` through `n`-`1`) with `otherOpenn`, `otherActionn`, and `otherLockn` fields as applicable. For example: ... otherOpen 3 ...... otherOpen0 user1@ws1 ...... otherOpen1 user2@ws2 ...... otherOpen2 user3@ws3
`otherOpenn`	For each user with the file open, the workspace and user with the open file	`user123@workstation9`
`otherLock`	Present and set to null if another user has the file locked, otherwise not present	`otherLock`
`otherLockn`	For each user with the file locked, the workspace and user holding the lock	`user123@workstation9` Only one user at a time can lock a file with `p4 lock`, but the output of `p4 fstat` differs depending on the user that runs the command and the workspace in which they run the command. A lock held by the current user and workspace is recorded as `ourLock`, and, if `n` is set, `n` is `0`. A lock held by a different user or workspace appears as one of the `other` events, such as `otherOpen0`, `otherAction0`, `otherChange0`, or `otherLock0`. For each additional user there is a different integer.
`otherActionn`	For each user with the file open, the action taken	one of `add`, `edit`, `delete`, `branch`, `move/add`, `move/delete`, `integrate`, `import`, `purge`, or `archive`.
`otherChangen`	For every changelist with the file open, the changelist	75612
`openattr-name`	For every changelist with the file open, the attribute value for name	`attr-name`
`openattrProp-name`	Set if `attr-name` is a propagating attribute	`attrProp-name`
`ourLock`	Present and set to null if the current user has the file locked, otherwise not present	`ourLock`
`resolveActionn` `resolveBaseFilen` `resolveBaseRevn` `resolveFromFilen` `resolveStartFromRevn` `resolveEndFromRevn`	Pending integration action, base file, base revision number, from file, starting, and ending revision, respectively.	For pending integration record information, use the `-Or` option.
`revtime`	If opened in your workspace, the file modification time, if the file is shelved.
`totalFileCount`	The number of files examined, if sorted.	Appears in the first file’s output when you use the `-m max` option in conjunction with one of the `-Sx` or `-r` sorting options.

Options

`-A pattern`	Restrict displayed attributes to those that match the specified `pattern`. For example, for the selected files, `-A foo*` displays only attributes whose name starts with `foo`.
`-c change`	Display only files modified by the specified changelist or after that changelist was submitted. This operation is much faster than using a revision range on the affected files.
`-e change`	Display only files affected by the given changelist number. This option is much faster than using a revision range on the affected files. When used with the `-Ro` option, only pending changes are considered to ensure that files opened for add are included. This option also displays the change description.
`-F filter`	List only those files that match the criteria specified by `filter`. See Filter with -F. Filtering is not optimized with indexes for performance.
`-L`	For scripting purposes or automated reporting processes: report file information on a list of valid file arguments in full depot syntax with a valid revision number. File specifications that do not meet these requirements are silently ignored.
`-m max`	Produce fstat output for only the first `max` files.
`-Oa`	Fetch and display the attribute values set by the `p4 attribute` command. Each attribute value is fetched from its storage location, which is either the trait depot or the `db.traits` table. Attributes fetched from the trait depot might impact performance. See also the `-On` option.
`-Ob`	Output the path, revision, type, full and relative local paths of the server archive file. Requires admin privilege.
`-Od`	Output the MD5 digest of an attribute.
`-Oe`	Output attribute values encoded as hex.
`-Of`	Output all revisions for the given files, suppressing the `other[...]` and `resolve[...]` fields.
`-Ol`	Output a `fileSize` field displaying the length of the file and an MD5 digest field for each revision. *p4 fstat -e shelvedChange* -Rs -Ol** reports the file size and MD5 digest of files shelved at the specified change. Note This might be expensive to compute.
`-Om`	Output includes other ditto mapped client files. See "ditto mapping" in Client Views.
`-On`	Display each attribute with its trait value storage location, the `db.traits` table or the trait depot (`.p4traits`), instead of the value, which is available with the `-Oa` option. For an example with the `-On` option, see To display the storage location of attributes and the p4 attribute topic.
`-Op`	Output the `clientFile` path in both: Helix Core Server syntax, such as `//depot/readme.txt` local syntax, that is, host form, such as `path C:\Users\maria\workspace\depot\readme.txt`
`-Or`	Output the pending integration record data for files open in the current workspace.
`-Os`	Shorten output by excluding client workspace data (for instance, the `clientFile` field).
`-OL`	When run against an edge server, output any global lock. This allows the display of global locks that would prevent a submit without the user having to query the commit server directly. This is for global locks created through p4 lock, not `+l`, which is one of the File type modifiers.
`-r`	Sort the output in reverse order.
`-Rc`	Limit output to files mapped into the current workspace.
`-Rh`	Limit output to files on your have list An internal list indicates which files and revisions the client workspace has sync'd from the depot. See 'p4 have' in Helix Core Command-Line (P4) Reference..
`-Rn`	Limit output to files opened at revisions not at the head revision.
`-Ro`	Limit output to open files in the current workspace. You must use this option to get pending changes.
`-Rr`	Limit output to open files that have been resolved.
`-Rs`	Limit output to shelved files. Requires `-e changelist` option. *p4 fstat -e shelvedChange* -Rs -Ol** reports the file size and MD5 digest of files shelved at the specified change.
`-Ru`	Limit output to open files that are unresolved.
`-Sd`	Sort by date.
`-Sh`	Sort by have revision.
`-Sr`	Sort by head revision.
`-Ss`	Sort by filesize.
`-St`	Sort by filetype.
`-T fields`	List only those fields that match the field names specified by `fields`. The list of field names can be separated by spaces or commas.
`-U`	Include files in the unload depot when displaying data. See `p4 unload` for details.
`--streamviews`	Report files and directories from stream Paths and Components, where imported files are represented as symbolic links under the stream depot path. Note If the path comes from an import or a component view, the path permissions are printed as `readonly` or `writable`, where `readonly` allows the file be opened for edit, but changes cannot be submitted, and `writable` allows both edit and submit. If the path comes from a component view, the `effectiveComponentType` is printed, where the effective component type is the most restrictive component type in a chain of components. From most restrictive to least restrictive are `readonly`, `writeimport+`, and `writeall` See the Viewing imported files example under Stream Components in the Helix Core Command-Line (P4) Guide.
`g-opts`	See Global options. The `-s` global option (which prefixes each line of output with a tag describing the type of output as `error`, `warning`, `info`, `text`, or `exit`) can be particularly useful when used with `p4 fstat`.

Usage notes

Can File Arguments Use Revision Specifier?	Can File Arguments Use Revision Range?	Minimal Access Level Required
Yes	Yes	`list`

Filter with -F

Use p4 fstat -F filter to limit the list of files to those that meet certain criteria.

You can use logical operators on any of the form fields displayed by p4 fstat. The usual comparison operators (=, >, <, >=, and <=) are available. Regular expression matching is supported by the regular expression matching operator (~=).

The following filter expression filters for files of a certain size whose headType field is set to text.

-F "fileSize > 100000 & headType=text"

Filters used for fstat are case-sensitive. All alphanumeric strings (including words including embedded punctuation) separated by whitespace are indexed as words.

Spaces between search terms in a filter are treated as boolean AND operations. To find files that contain any of the key/value pairs (boolean OR), separate the terms with the “|” character.

Ampersands (&) can be used as boolean ANDs as well; the boolean operators bind in the order &, |, space (highest precedence to lowest precedence). Use parentheses to change the grouping order.

Additionally, you can use the NOT operator (^) to negate the sense of some comparisons.

Search results can be narrowed by matching values within specific fields with the filter syntax "fieldname=value". The value must be a single token, including both alphanumeric characters and punctuation.

The wildcard "*" allows for partial word matches. The filter "fieldname=string*" matches "string", "stringy", "stringlike", and so on.

Date fields can be matched by expressing the filter date as yyyy/mm/dd or yyyy/mm/dd:hh:mm:ss. If a specific time is not provided, the equality operator (=) matches the entire day.

To search for text containing characters that are filter expression operators, escape the characters with a backslash (\) character. To match the backslash character, escape it with an additional backlash (\\). Using backslashes to escape search queries has two special cases: you can escape the Helix Core Server "..." wildcard with \..., and you can search for empty fields with \0.

The behavior of comparison operators depends on the type of field you’re comparing against. All fields that fstat processes are text fields. The equality operator (=) or case-insensitive equality operator (~=) matches the file if the word given as the value is found anywhere in the specified field. The relational operators are of limited use here, because they match the file if any word in the specified field matches the provided value. Relational operators are always case-sensitive. For example, if a changelist has a text field desc that contains the phrase bug not fixed, and the filter is "desc<fixed", the file matches the filter, because bug<fixed.

Examples

`p4 fstat file.c`	Displays information on `file.c`.
`p4 fstat //....c@20,@now`	Displays information on all `.c` files after the checking-in of files under changelist 20.
`p4 fstat -Os file.c`	No client workspace information lines (`clientFile`) are displayed.
`p4 fstat -Osl file.c`	No client workspace information lines are displayed, but the `fileSize` and `MD5 digest` lines are displayed.
`p4 fstat -Os -Ol file.c`	Equivalent to `p4 fstat -Osl`.
`p4 fstat -F "clientFile=c:\\ws\\file.c" //depot/main/...`	If a path contains backslashes, escape them with backslashes.
`p4 fstat -F "clientFile~=c:\\ws\\[Ff]ile.c" //depot/main/...`	Use the `~=` regular expression modifier to specify a regexp that matches `File.c` and `file.c`.
`p4 fstat -Ol -F "fileSize < 1024 & headType=text" //depot/main/...`	Display information on all text files under `//depot/main/...` that are smaller than 1024 bytes in length.
`p4 fstat -T 'depotFile, headRev' file.c`	Display only the `depotFile` and `headRev` fields for `file.c`.
`p4 fstat -On -F attr-preview //depot/main/rel1/perl_proj/..`.	Display the storage location of image previews in the Perl project to indicate whether the location is in the `db.trait` table or the `trait` depot.

Examples for attributes

To display the attributes of a specified file

The p4 fstat-Oa command shows the values of attributes. To learn about attributes, see p4 attribute.

Look for the attr- prefix:

            p4 fstat -Oa //depot/main/release1/perl_proj/kitten.gif
... depotFile //depot/main/release1/perl_proj/kitten.gif
... clientFile /home/bruno/main/release1/perl_proj/kitten.gif
... isMapped
... headAction edit
... headType text
... headTime 1422908282
... headRev 4
... headChange 25424
... headModTime 1422908084
... attr-black-and-white true

To search for an attribute across a set of files

To display the attributes with their values, include the -F option of p4 fstat to find files with specific attributes.

            p4 fstat -Oa -F "attr-black-and-white=true" "attr-preview" //depot/main/release1/perl_proj/...
... depotFile //depot/main/release1/perl_proj/kitten.gif
... clientFile /home/bruno/main/release1/perl_proj/kitten.gif
... isMapped
... headAction edit
... headType text
... headTime 1422908282
... headRev 4
... headChange 25424
... headModTime 1422908084
... attr-black-and-white true

To display the storage location of attributes

The -On option shows the storage location of attributes rather than their values. In this example, the value of the black-and-white and size traits are stored in the db.traits table, but the value of the preview trait is stored in the trait depot, which is represented as .p4traits:

            p4 fstat -On //depot/main/release1/perl_proj/...
... depotFile //depot/main/release1/perl_proj/kitten.gif
... clientFile /home/bruno/main/release1/perl_proj/kitten.gif
... isMapped
... headAction edit
... headType text
... headTime 1422908282
... headRev 4
... headChange 25424
... headModTime 1422908084
... attr-black-and-white db.traits
... attr-size db.traits
... attr-preview .p4traits

Related commands

To read additional information about each file	`p4 files`
To display file information including change descriptions	`p4 filelog`