Enumerating the # and names of files in a VSS folder
A customer asked me this question via email today. Unable to remember how to do this (I've been off VSS for over a year), I pinged one of the VSS team's awesome developers, Alin, who promptly responded with this gem:
"You can use VSS Automation to find out the number of files in a folder and their names. Here is the function for doing that:
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim db As New SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSDatabase
db.Open("\\alinc00\vss$\", "Guest", "")
Dim item As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem
item = db.VSSItem("$/")
MsgBox("Total number of files and subfolders = " + item.Items.Count.ToString)
Dim files As Integer
Dim child As SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItem
files = 0
For Each child In item.Items
If child.Type = SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItemType.VSSITEM_FILE Then
files = files + 1
End If
Next
MsgBox("Total number of files = " + files.ToString)
End Sub
The command line SS.exe alone cannot be used, but combined with other utilities it can provide the answer.
ss dir $/ | findstr /R "^[^\$]" | wc –l
(ss dir lists the files and folders, findstr filters out files, wc counts the lines)
Subtract 1 from the answer to find the number of files (because the last line displayed by ss.exe contains the total number of files and folders) or use something like
@for /F %I in ('ss dir $/ ^| findstr /R "^[^\$]" ^| wc -l') do set /a FILES=%I-1 > NUL
@echo There are %FILES% files in this folder
