Help searching the content of all files stored on shared drives.

[Zed Kolk]

Hello all, first time posting here👋

The following gam command works for searching files in all users’ mydrives:
gam all users show filelist query "fullText contains 'keyword'" fields id,title,owners,alternatelink

I’m trying to figure out how to do something similar for Shared Drives.
I already have a CSV that includes an id  with the drive IDs of every Shared Drive, and it@ is a service account that is added to every Shared Drive.

However, I still can’t figure out the actual gam command I need to make to search shared drives.
I assume it is something like this (but this gives syntax errors so obvi it’s not it):
gam csv "$ids_file" gam user i...@domain.com show filelist drive ~id query "fullText contains 'keyword'" fields id,title,owners,alternatelink

I had hopes that this message posted in this Google Group would be the answer, but it doesn’t find this test file I have stored on a shared drive.

[Ross Scroggs]

See: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/Users-Drive-Files-Display#file-selection-of-shared-drive

gam redirect csv ./SharedDriveInfo.csv multiprocess redirect stderr - multiprocess csv "$ids_file" gam user i...@domain.com print filelist select shareddriveid ~id query "fullText contains 'keyword'" fields id,title,alternatelink

For a Google sheet result: redirect csv - multiprocess todrive

Ross

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[Zed Kolk]

Thanks for your reply,

As it turns out, I think I was able to get it to work with this: gam csv $ids_file gam user $it_email_address print filelist fullquery "fullText contains 'keyword'" select teamdriveid ~id showownedby any id title filepath >> "$sharedDriveOutput"