Start P4 CLI

P4 CLI is the command-line client application for running P4 Server commands.

  1. Change to your working directory.

    This is the working directory you created in Create a working directory.

    On UNIX and macOS 

    cd /Users/bruno/tutorial

    On Windows 

    cd C:\Users\bruno\tutorial

  2. Set the P4PORT environment variable.

    The server is running as localhost on port 1666. For the client to communicate with the server, you must set the client’s P4PORT variable to localhost:1666.

    On UNIX and macOS with the bash shell:

    export P4PORT=localhost:1666

    On Windows 

    p4 set P4PORT=localhost:1666

  3. Start P4 CLI.

    p4

    This produces the following output, followed by a list of help commands.

    Perforce P4 -- Scalable Version Control for Any Digital Asset
p4 is the the command-line client.