Perfoce Commands are especially useful when you are working on multiple branches and you don't want to download all branches but want to get some information.
Before you proceed make sure you understand how wild cards work in perforce command: https://www.perforce.com/manuals/cmdref/Content/CmdRef/filespecs.html
Search Text in All Readme.txt at any subfolder level of //depot/xxx/yyy/abc/
p4 grep -i -e
"mytext" //depot/xxx/yyy/abc/.../Readme.txt
or (to cover .md and .txt files)
p4 grep -s -e -i "punta" //depot/iView/GTM_Branches/Release/.../Readme.*
Search Directory by name
p4 dirs -i
"//depot/xxx/yyy/abc/*/def/dir_to_search"
also,
p4 dirs -i
"//depot/xxx/yyy/abc/*/def/*dir_to_search*"
for searching file, use "files" command instead of "dirs command.
Use @@1 instead of * for single level search
Get Last Check-in info for a directory
p4 changes -m 1
"//depot/xxx/yyy/abc/*/def/…"
Diff between two files
p4 diff "//depot/xxx/def.txt" "//depot/yyy/def.txt"
File Sizes by name
p4 sizes -h "//depot/.../def.txt"
