Determining the last changelist synced to in Perforce

Question

A question that occasionally arises is what is the best way to determine the changelist that you last synced to in Perforce. This is often needed for things like injecting the c

Answer 1

Just to answer this myself in keeping with Jeff's suggestion of using Stackoverflow as a place to keep technical snippets....

From the command line use:

p4 changes -m1 @

And just replace with the name of your client spec. This will produce output of the form:

Change 12345 on 2008/08/21 by joebloggs@mainline-client '....top line of description...'

Which is easily parsed to extract the changelist number.