Powershell script required..

Question

this is the scenario.

p1

 |_f1

 |_f2



p2

  |_f1

  |_f2

Can anyone please help me with a powershell script that copies the files shown above from the TFS to a temporary folder ??? where f1,f2,and so on are the subfolders..

Answer 1

I have no experience with either, but in the interest of a least pointing you in the right direction, check out this site. http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/03/pstfs-powershell-and-tfs-better-than.html

There are a couple of commands that will give you at least part of what you want. You will still need to do some digging to figure out the time stamp stuff.

Answer 2

You may want to check the answer to my question on a very similar scenario.

You will find answer to

give me all files in this folder (or subfolder)

as well as

that where modified after x/y/zzzz

but I'm still not sure about the

dump those files to folder other than they would normally go to

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update

Incorporating your approach

Get-TfsItemProperty $/MyFirstTFSProj -r -server xyzc011b | 
Where {$_.CheckinDate -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)} | 
Copy-Item -Destination C:\SomeDir -Whatif

you normally can omit the Copy-Item -Path param because it will be provided by the pipeline.

I don't have a TFS at to test with Get-TfsItemProperty but you could try

Get-TfsItemProperty $/MyFirstTFSProj -r -server xyzc011b | 
Where {$_.CheckinDate -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)} | 
Get-Member

do find out about where this $null value is coming from.

I assume you did already see this post. To maintain the folder structure on the destination you need to include the -Force switch on the Copy-Item to create missing target folders:

Get-TfsItemProperty $/MyFirstTFSProj -r -server xyzc011b | 
Where {$_.CheckinDate -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)} | 
Copy-Item -Destination C:\SomeDir -Force -Whatif

I'm still not sure if you need to retrieve/export the files prior to copy them - you should check on the second answer from Richard Berg in the post mentiond above.