p4 fstat

Synopsis

Syntax

Description

The output is best used within a Perforce API application where the items can be accessed as variables, but is also suitable for parsing by scripts.

Form Fields

Field Name	Description	Example/Notes
clientFile	local path to file (in local syntax by default, or in Perforce syntax with the -Op option)	/staff/userid/src/file.c (or //workspace/src/file.c in Perforce syntax)
depotFile	depot path to file	//depot/src/file.c
path	local path to file	//workspace/src/file.c
headAction	action taken at head revision, if in depot	one of add, edit, delete, branch, or integrate
headChange	head revision changelist number, if in depot	1, 2, 3... n
headRev	head revision number, if in depot	1, 2, 3... n
headTime	Head revision modification time, if in depot. Time is measured in seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970	919283152 is a date in early 1999
headType	head revision type, if in depot	text, binary, text+k, etc. (see the chapter on File Types.)
haveRev	revision last synced to workspace, if on workspace	1, 2, 3... n
desc	changelist description (if using -e changelist and if the file was part of changelist)	A Perforce changelist
digest	MD5 digest of a file (requires -Ol option)	A 32 hexadecimal digit string
fileSize	file length in bytes (requires -Ol option)	63488
action	open action, if opened in your workspace	one of add, edit, delete, branch, or integrate
type	open type, if opened in your workspace	A Perforce file type
actionOwner	the user who opened the file, if open	A Perforce username
change	open changelist number, if opened in your workspace	1, 2, 3... n
resolved	the number, if any, of resolved integration records	1, 2, 3... n
unresolved	the number, if any, of unresolved integration records	1, 2, 3... n
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@cws1 ...... otherOpen1 user2@cws2 ...... otherOpen2 user3@cws3
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	unset (... otherLock) or not present
otherLockn	for each user with the file locked, the workspace and user holding the lock	user123@workstation9 Because only one user at a time, may lock a file, if n is set, n is always 0.
otherActionn	for each user with the file open, the action taken	one of add, edit, delete, branch, or integrate
otherChangen	for every changelist with the file open, the changelist	A changelist number
ourLock	present and set to null if the current user has the file locked, otherwise not present	unset (... ourLock) or not present
resolveActionn resolveBaseFilen 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.

Options

-c changelist#	Display only files affected after the given changelist number. This operation is much faster than using a revision range on the affected files.
-e changelist#	Display only files affected by the given changelist number. This option is much faster than using a revision range on the affected files.
-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 a digest field for each revision. On servers older than release 2005.1, this field may be expensive to compute, particularly for text files with many revisions.
-Op	Display the clientFile in Perforce syntax, as opposed to local syntax.
-Or	Display pending integration record data for files open in the current workspace.
-Os	Shorten output by excluding client workspace data (for instance, the clientFile field).
-Rc	Limit output to files mapped into the current workspace.
-Rh	Limit output to files on your have list; that is, to files synced to the current workspace.
-Rn	Limit output to files opened at revisions not at the head revision.
-Ro	Limit output to open files in the current workspace.
-Rr	Limit output to open files that have been resolved.
-Ru	Limit output to open files that are unresolved.
g-opts	See the Global Options section. 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

• If you use -e changelist# with the -Ro option, only pending changes are considered, so that files open for add are included in the output.

• The syntax of p4 fstat was changed in Release 2004.2. The older -C, -H, -W, -P, -l, and -s options are supported for compatibility purposes.

• For files containing the special characters @, #, *, and %, the clientFile displays the special character, and the depotFile displays the filename containing the ASCII expression of the character's hexadecimal value.

Examples

p4 fstat file.c	Displays information on file.c
p4 fstat -Rc 20 *.c	Displays information on all .c files affected after the checking-in of files under changelist 20.
p4 fstat -Os file.c	No client workspace information lines (i.e. clientFile) are displayed
p4 fstat -Osl file.c	No client workspace information lines are displayed, but the fileSize and digest lines are displayed.
p4 fstat -Os -Ol file.c	Equivalent to p4 fstat -Osl.

Related Commands

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