Dir Command
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Visual Studio 2019 | Visual Studio 2017 | Visual Studio 2015 | Visual Studio 2013
The dir command displays all or some of the contents of the server for Team Foundation version control.
Prerequisites
To use the dir command, you must have Read permission set to Allow. For more information, see Default TFVC permissions.
Syntax
tf dir itemspec [/version:versionspec] [/recursive]
[/folders] [/deleted] [/login:username,[password]] [/collection:TeamProjectCollectionUrl]
Parameters
Argument
Argument
Description
itemspec
Identifies the file or folder to return information about. For more information about how Team Foundation parses itemspecs to determine which items are within scope, see Use Team Foundation version control commands, Use options to modify how a command functions.
Note
You can specify more than one Itemspec argument.
versionspec
The user-provided value for the /version option. For more information about how Team Foundation parses a version specification to determine which items are within its scope, see Use Team Foundation version control commands.
username
Provides a value to the /login option. You can specify a username value as either DOMAIN\UserName or UserName.
TeamProjectCollectionUrl
The URL of the project collection that contains one or more files or folders about which you want to display information (for example, http://myserver:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/).
Option
Option
Description
/version
Specifies that Team Foundation should only show files and folders of a certain version.
/recursive
Displays all files and subfolders in the specified directory.
/folders
Displays folders only.
/deleted
Displays deleted items and existing items. The deleted items are followed with ;X3 where 3 is the deletion id.
/login
Specifies the user name and password to authenticate the user with Azure DevOps.
/collection
Specifies the project collection.
Remarks
The dir command operates on the Team Foundation version control server copies of files, not the local copies. The command uses the local mapped folder to locate the appropriate Team Foundation version control server path. You use this command to explore the Team Foundation version control server and identify files you may have to obtain.
For more information on how to find the tf command-line utility, see Use Team Foundation version control commands.
Examples
The following example displays a list of files, folders, subfolders, and the files therein in the Team Foundation version control server folder to which c:\projects maps. The number of items is also listed. For more information about how to view and edit working folder mappings, see Workspace Command and Workfold Command.
c:\projects>tf dir /recursive
The following example displays all Team Foundation version control server files at that path. The "314dir" subfolder does not have to exist in the local folder.
c:\projects>tf dir 314dir
The following example displays the version of files labeled "My label" in that Team Foundation version control server path. The "314dir" subfolder does not have to exist in the local folder.
c:\projects>tf dir /version:L"My label" 314dir
The following example displays all folders in the root of the Team Foundation version control server. The local working folder is ignored because $/ denotes a Team Foundation version control server path.
c:\projects>tf dir /folders $/
The following example lists every file and folder in the Team Foundation version control server.
c:\projects>tf dir /recursive $/
The following example lists all items and deleted items in the current folder together with their deletion IDs.
c:\projects>tf dir /deleted