.tf

2 claimants 2 primary 0 secondary shared primary (2)

SWH popularity

From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.

5.1M
total occurrences
2.6M
since 2019 (50.4%)
1971–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .tf (5.1M), .TF (549), .Tf (4) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to HCL; TF as primary by 2 authoritative claims.

Authoritative sources: △ Linguist · secondary ✓ Pygments ✗ Wikidata · no claim ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (3)

Languages that list .tf among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
HCLpygmentsprimary
TFpygmentsprimary
HCLlinguistsecondary

Wikidata says… (2)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .tf on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
HCL configuration file Q115923522
configuration used by the Terraform platform
file formattext/x-hclUse as new PL ↗
Terraform file format Q131294117
file format
file formatapplication/x-terraform; application/x-tfUse as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (1)

Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.
bod_lambda_security_group_rules.tf · 464 B · seen 692× in SWH
predicted: unclassified via fallback
swh:1:cnt:8634e7f491b5172cac4fad8ba4d033f3ce030e19;origin=https://github.com/cisagov/cyhy_amis;anchor=swh:1:rev:43be70ff835e90993a62509be5af9d33505cb46e;path=/terraform/bod_lambda_security_group_rules.tf
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