tf command-line tips

• tfs
• team-explorer-everywhere
• bash

At my current job I have to deal with TFS and since I’m on Mac and prefer to work from terminal here are my notes.

Unmap all workspace mappings

tf workfold -workspace:workspace_name |
 grep Users |
 cut -d ' ' -f 2 |
 sed 's/.$//' |
 xargs -I FILE tf workfold -workspace:workspace_name -unmap FILE

tf workfold output usually consists of pairs of server/local folder mappings and some garbage
grep Users cut all garbage off
cut -d ' ' -f 2 leaves only first element of mapping pair, which is server path
sed 's/.$//' removes last symbol in path which is ‘:’
then xargs passes each line of output as argument for tf workfold
Simple, isn’t it

Map folders as per workspace.txt

sed -e 's/://' -e 's/\\/\//g' -e 's/\$(SourceDir)/\/Users\/aup\/Documents\/workspace_name/' workspace.txt |
 tr -d '\015' |
 grep -v cloaked |
 xargs -n 2 sh -c 'tf workfold -workspace:workspace_name -map $1 $2' argv0

sed part is quite straightforward, but the rest is rather tricky.
tr removes carriage return symbols brought from Windows
grep -v cloacked to remove clocked mappings
-n 2, sh -c and argv0 are all necessary for xargs here, since only with this mix I was able to get tf to accept arguments. Plain execution of tf command (like in unmap example) doesn’t work here
-n 2 splits imput in pairs of arguments
argv0 passes those arguments to sh -c, that in turn just executes given string as shell command

BTW, very useful option for xargs debugging: -t