get a set of files that have been modified after a certain date

Question

Does anyone have a handy powershell script that gets a set of files from TFS based on a modification date? I'd like to say "give me all the files in this folder (or subfolder) that were modified after X/Y/ZZZZ" and dump those files to a folder other than the folder they would normally go to. I know enough powershell to hack about and get this done, eventually, but I'm hoping to avoid that.

Answer 1

Make sure you have the Team Foundation 2015 Power Tools installed. It comes with a PowerShell snapin. You can run the PowerShell console file right from its startup group or you can execute Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell. Then cd to your workspace and execute:

Get-TfsItemProperty . -r | Where {$_.CheckinDate -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)} | 
    Format-Table CheckinDate,TargetServerItem -auto

CheckinDate           TargetServerItem 
-----------           ----------------
9/14/2009 1:29:23 PM  $/Foo/Trunk/Bar.sln                            
9/29/2009 5:08:26 PM  $/Foo/Trunk/Baz.sln       

To dump that info to a dir:

Get-TfsItemProperty . -r | Where {$_.CheckinDate -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)} | 
    Select TargetServerItem > c:\recentlyChangedFiles.txt

To copy those files to another dir (this assumes you have them pulled down locally into a workfolder):

Get-TfsItemProperty . -r | Where {$_.CheckinDate -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)} | 
    CopyItem -Path $_.LocalItem -Destination C:\SomeDir -Whatif

Note this copies files into a flat folder structure. If you want to maintain the dir structure it is a bit more involved.