search for a file in all shared drives

Temple Rodgers

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Sep 17, 2021, 9:31:01 AM9/17/21

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Hi y'all .. I'm doing a simple search for a file, I know the exact name, this isn't working ...

gam config csv_output_row_filter "name:regex:^filename.txt" print teamdrive

the drives are scanned and the headers are output but no rows of data.

A supplementary Q - can I search all Users' MyDrives for a file?

Thank you

Ross Scroggs

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Sep 17, 2021, 10:05:19 AM9/17/21

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Temple,

Your command is looking for a Shared Drive named filename.txt, not what you're looking for.

The process in more complicated; you have to search by user. GAMADV-XTD3 6.07.26 or later is required.

gam config auto_batch_min 1 multiprocessexit rc=0 redirect stdout - multiprocess redirect stderr stdout all users print filelist query "name='filename.txt'" fields id,name,driveid filepath corpora alldrives

config auto_batch_min 1- Do parallel processing

multiprocessexit rc=0 - Stop processing when the file is found

redirect stdout - multiprocess redirect stderr stdout - Make the progress messages clean

all users - Look at everybody

print filelist query "name='filename.txt'" - Command to list the file

fields id,name,driveid filepath - Specify output

corpora alldrives - Make the search include Shared Drives; omit to only look at My Drives

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Temple Rodgers

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Sep 17, 2021, 10:07:00 AM9/17/21

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thank you @ross - I'll give it a try now. GAM-XTD3 was updated earlier today.

Temple

Temple Rodgers

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Sep 17, 2021, 10:25:17 AM9/17/21

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oof! .. Linux doesn't like the exclamation point which is in the filename ... I tried /\! but GAM took it literally so then I tried using a + instead of the ! but not the :regex .. but then I found out I can type set +H before and set -H after which turns history expansion off then on.

Temple Rodgers

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Sep 17, 2021, 10:42:03 AM9/17/21

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yep, that works, thank you. Is there a way of preventing thousands of lines? thus:

Getting all Drive Files/Folders that match query ((name='b02%001!.PDF')) for aa....b@h.co.uk

Got 0 Drive Files/Folders that matched query ((name='b02%001!.PDF')) for aa.....b@h.co.uk...