[absmiths]

I have a command I can run 'p4 describe @#' which will give me a dump like this:

Code:
Changelist # by brad

Affected Files:

//whatever.java
...

And I need to create it for a whole range of numbers from say 100 - 200, each going into a separate file. Is there an easy way to do this? I am comfortable with the shell, but not good at loops or perl.

[absmiths]

I just reread this and it's funny how much it sounds like homework!

Anyway, my problem was that I didn't know how to make a loop run along a sequence of numbers, rather than iterating over files in a directory. I did this and it worked:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

# BUILD THE CLASSPATH WITH A REFERENCE TO EVERY JAR IN THE LIB DIR
for ($x = 1759; $x < 1872; $x++)
{
  print "p4 describe -s $x > p4_desribe_$x\n";
  `p4 describe -s $x > p4_desribe_$x\n`;
}

Obviously I changed my numeric range from 100-200 to 1759-1871, and I redirected all output to files with the change number in the name. That allowed my to grep through all the files and look for entries I was interested in.

In case anyone wants to know, my original problem was to identify files in a version control system (perforce) which had changed after a certain date - but only the ones in a particular project.

I had to do this because I forgot to label the release and was trying to separate two projects.

Adios.