Print/Add/Delete contacts that match query - Need Help

[M Watson]

Good morning. I'm trying to get comfortable with GAMADV-X's User Contacts commands and am having issues getting it to work properly, specifically with the query argument.

Goal: To delete all contacts from a user's contacts that begin with Name(or givenName) "BRG"
(These are old distribution groups no longer used, but still persisting in our user's contacts.)

To avoid a catastrophe I attempted to print the results first, but I can't find where I'm messing things up. All of the commands seen below return:
"Getting all Contacts that match query (givenName=BRG)" (query possibly different based on what I tried)

"Got - Contacts..."
"User,ContactID,Name"

Commands I've tried:
gam user mwa...@brgroup.com print contacts query givenName="BRG*" (asterisk inside or outside the quotes)
gam user mwa...@brgroup.com print contacts query givenName:"BRG*" (asterisk inside or outside the quotes)
gam user mwa...@brgroup.com print contacts query givenName=BRG* (no quotes)
I've also tried it w/ 'Name=' to no avail.

[Ross Scroggs]

M,

From here: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/reference#contacts-query-parameters-reference

Fulltext query on contacts data fields. The API currently supports simple search queries such as q=term1 term2 term3

and exact search queries such as q="term1 term2 term3"

It looks like the best you can do is:

gam user mwa...@brgroup.com print contacts query "BRG"

Ross

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[M Watson]

Got it, thanks! I was looking at the wrong documentation apparently... That gets me enough data to get the job done.

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