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
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
-S
options, and to reverse sort order, use thex
-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 |
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Set if |
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Local path to file (in local syntax by default, or in
Helix Core Server
syntax with the For files containing the special characters |
(or |
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Depot path to file. For files containing the special characters |
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Name in depot of moved to/from file |
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Local path to file |
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Set if the file is mapped to current client workspace |
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isMissing
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Set if the rev is known to not be in the depot | |
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Set if file is shelved |
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Action taken at head revision, if in depot |
one of |
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Head revision changelist number, if in depot |
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Head revision number, if in depot |
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Head revision type, if in depot |
text, |
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Head charset |
for unicode files |
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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 |
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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 |
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Head revision of moved file |
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Revision last synced to workspace, if on workspace |
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Changelist description (if using |
A Helix Core Server changelist |
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MD5 digest of a file (requires |
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. |
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File length in bytes (requires |
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. |
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Open action, if opened in your workspace |
one of |
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Open type, if opened in your workspace |
A Helix Core Server file type |
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Open charset |
(for unicode files) |
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User who opened the file, if open |
A Helix Core Server username |
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open revision, if opened |
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Open changelist number, if opened in your workspace |
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The number, if any, of resolved integration records |
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The number, if any, of unresolved integration records |
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The number, if any, of re-resolvable integration records |
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lockOnCommit |
Set if locked on commit server | |
otherLockGlobal |
Set if lock is global | |
otherLockGlobal# |
user@client with file globally locked | |
otherLockOnCommit |
Set if locked on commit server | |
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The number of other users who have the file open, blank if no other users have the file open |
1, ... otherOpen 3 ...... otherOpen0 user1@ws1 ...... otherOpen1 user2@ws2 ...... otherOpen2 user3@ws3 |
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For each user with the file open, the workspace and user with the open file |
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Present and set to null if another user has the file locked, otherwise not present |
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For each user with the file locked, the workspace and user holding the lock |
Only one user at a time can lock a file with A lock held by the current user and workspace is recorded as A lock held by a different user or workspace appears as one of the |
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For each user with the file open, the action taken |
one of |
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For every changelist with the file open, the changelist |
75612 |
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For every changelist with the file open, the attribute value for name |
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Set if |
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Present and set to null if the current user has the file locked, otherwise not present |
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Pending integration action, base file, base revision number, from file, starting, and ending revision, respectively. |
For pending integration record information, use the
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revtime
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If opened in your workspace, the file modification time, if the file is shelved. |
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The number of files examined, if sorted. |
Appears in the first file’s output when you use the |
Options
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Restrict displayed attributes to those that match the specified
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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. |
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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 |
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List only those files that match the criteria specified by
Filtering is not optimized with indexes for performance. |
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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. |
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Produce fstat output for only the first |
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Fetch and display the attribute values set by the |
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Output the path, revision, type, full and relative local paths of the server archive file. Requires admin privilege. |
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Output the MD5 digest of an attribute. |
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Output attribute values encoded as hex. |
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Output all revisions for the given files, suppressing the
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Output a 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
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Output includes other ditto mapped client files. See "ditto mapping" in Client Views. |
Display each attribute with its trait value storage location, the |
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Output the
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Output the pending integration record data for files open in the current workspace. |
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Shorten output by excluding client workspace data (for instance,
the |
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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 |
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Sort the output in reverse order. |
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Limit output to files mapped into the current workspace. |
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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.. |
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Limit output to files opened at revisions not at the head revision. |
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Limit output to open files in the current workspace. You must use this option to get pending changes. |
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Limit output to open files that have been resolved. |
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Limit output to shelved files. Requires p4 fstat -e shelvedChange -Rs -Ol reports the file size and MD5 digest of files shelved at the specified change. |
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Limit output to open files that are unresolved. |
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Sort by date. |
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Sort by have revision. |
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Sort by head revision. |
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Sort by filesize. |
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Sort by filetype. |
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List only those fields that match the field names specified by
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Include files in the unload depot when displaying data. See
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--streamviews
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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 If the path comes from a component view, the See the Viewing imported files example under Stream Components in the Helix Core Command-Line (P4) Guide. |
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See Global options. The |
Usage notes
Can File Arguments Use Revision Specifier? | Can File Arguments Use Revision Range? | Minimal Access Level Required |
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Yes |
Yes |
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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
"
".
The fieldname
=value
value
must be a single token, including both
alphanumeric characters and punctuation.
The wildcard "*
" allows for partial word matches. The
filter "
" matches
"fieldname
=string*string
", "stringy
", "stringlike
",
and so on.
Date fields can be matched by expressing the filter date as
or
yyyy
/mm
/dd
.
If a specific time is not provided, the equality operator
(yyyy
/mm
/dd
:hh
:mm
:ss
=
) 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
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Displays information on |
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Displays information on all |
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No client workspace information lines ( |
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No client workspace information lines are displayed, but the
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Equivalent to |
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If a path contains backslashes, escape them with backslashes. |
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Use the |
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Display information on all text files under |
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Display only the |
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 |
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To display file information including change descriptions |