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Gabriel Clifton

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Oct 4, 2021, 10:38:49 AM10/4/21
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I am trying to ensure our students do not have knowledge of certain staff email groups so I was going through and running gam ous_and_children "/campus/ student ou" clear contacts emailmatchpattern <group email address> and it was having trouble with the space in the student OU. Running the latest GAMADV version, am I doing something wrong with it? I am going to be running this command several times with different variations since our students should only be able to email their teacher so I want to ensure students do not have any unauthorized contacts due to bad misconfigurations of the past.

Gabriel Clifton

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Oct 4, 2021, 10:46:12 AM10/4/21
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Edit: I have also tried emailmatchpattern "*.@student.domain.com" and got ERROR: REPattern error: nothing to repeat at position 0  at the "*.@student.domain.com".

Ross Scroggs

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Oct 4, 2021, 10:54:48 AM10/4/21
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Gabriel,

Since you said ous_and_children (a list) as opposed to ou_and_children (single item), you need special quoting:
gam ous_and_children "'/campus/ student ou'" clear contacts emailmatchpattern <group email address>   List
gam ou_and_children "/campus/ student ou" clear contacts emailmatchpattern <group email address>       Single item

You probably want delete instead of clear to simple delete the contact.

Edit: I have also tried emailmatchpattern "*.@student.domain.com" and got ERROR: REPattern error: nothing to repeat at position 0  at the "*.@student.domain.com".

Reverse the . and *
emailmatchpattern ".*@student.domain.com"

Ross

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 7:38 AM 'Gabriel Clifton' via GAM for Google Workspace <google-ap...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
I am trying to ensure our students do not have knowledge of certain staff email groups so I was going through and running gam ous_and_children "/campus/ student ou" clear contacts emailmatchpattern <group email address> and it was having trouble with the space in the student OU. Running the latest GAMADV version, am I doing something wrong with it? I am going to be running this command several times with different variations since our students should only be able to email their teacher so I want to ensure students do not have any unauthorized contacts due to bad misconfigurations of the past.

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Gabriel Clifton

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Oct 4, 2021, 11:58:09 AM10/4/21
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When I tried "gam ou_and_children "/Campus/Student OU" clear contacts emailmatchpattern ".*@student.domain.com" " I received this error on the 6th person and it stopped there. Switched to delete contacts and it worked fine.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__init__.py", line 57977, in ProcessGAMCommand
  File "__init__.py", line 17152, in clearUserPeopleContacts
  File "__init__.py", line 17136, in _clearUpdatePeopleContacts
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'updatePersonFields' referenced before assignment

Brian Kim

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Oct 4, 2021, 2:23:44 PM10/4/21
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Are you using Contacts API? (6.07.xx or older) or People API? (6.08.xx or later)

Ross Scroggs

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Oct 4, 2021, 2:49:57 PM10/4/21
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It was a bug, fixed in 6.08.10

Ross

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