Create folder in root, if doesn't exist

[Ben Davidson]

Hi all,

I'm building a shell script and trying to include some logic to create a folder in the root of a users drive, but only if one of that exact name doesn't exist already.

Creating the folder works fine:

gam user itadmin create drivefile drivefilename "GAM-Logs" mimetype gfolder

But will keep making identically named folders unless I check first. What's the best way to test?

I can get the output of something like

gamma-base-1% gam user itadmin show fileinfo drivefilename "ejfnweofhweofhweoufh"
Getting all Drive Files/Folders that match query ('me' in owners and name = 'ejfnweofhweofhweoufh') for ita...@domain.com
Got 0 Drive Files/Folders that matched query ('me' in owners and name = 'ejfnweofhweofhweoufh') for ita...@domain.com...
User: ita...@domain.com, Show 0 Drive Files/Folders

and grep through it to use in an if/then... for a result like "Got 1 Drive Files/Folders..." or "Got 1 Drive Files/Folders...", but am wondering if there's a more elegant way?

Thanks!

[Ross Scroggs]

Ben,

With Advanced GAM you can do:

$ gam user testsimple show fileinfo query "name = 'SourceFolder' and 'root' in parents" fields id

Getting all Drive Files/Folders that match query (name = 'SourceFolder' and 'root' in parents) for tests...@rdschool.org

Got 1 Drive File/Folder that matched query (name = 'SourceFolder' and 'root' in parents) for tests...@rdschool.org...

User: tests...@rdschool.org, Show 1 Drive File/Folder

  Drive Folder: SourceFolder (16SioWjhoDr9d-IeGofLz-IsGy8fHCSzB)

    id: 16SioWjhoDr9d-IeGofLz-IsGy8fHCSzB

$ echo $?

0

$ gam user testsimple show fileinfo query "name = 'SourceFolderX' and 'root' in parents" fields id

Getting all Drive Files/Folders that match query (name = 'SourceFolderX' and 'root' in parents) for tests...@rdschool.org

Got 0 Drive Files/Folders that matched query (name = 'SourceFolderX' and 'root' in parents) for tests...@rdschool.org...

User: tests...@rdschool.org, Show 0 Drive Files/Folders

admin@academic:~$ echo $?

60

A 0 return code means that the folder exists, 60 means it doesn't

Ross

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[Ben Davidson]

Thanks Ross!