Assistance with file search using wildcards

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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Hi,

Would someone be able to assist with the following relevance using wildcards? Using the following relevance returns true:

exists files “Exchange.NK2” of folder “C:\Documents and Settings<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook”

but using the following returns false:

exists find files “*.NK2” of folder “C:\Documents and Settings\fongrob\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook”

What I am trying to do is to find the existence of any files with the .NK2 extention.

Thanks

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(imported comment written by Lee Wei)

You syntax and usage all seems correct.

File names in Windows are not case sensitive, so that is OK.

Might this be a possible scenario?

You run this command in the Relevance Debugger and you got what is expected. However, when you put this in the BES Console and you see a different results? The BigFix Agents on the hosts run as the System account, and not the login user.

Just a thought.

http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/kbdirect.pl?id=338

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

Hi Fongrob,

Your second query works on my machine. Are you sure there is a .NK2 file in your Outlook folder? I have one in there called Outlook.NK2

-Jesse

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Hi Jesse, Lee,

I do have a Exchange.NK2 file in my outlook folder, but I’m not sure why it’s returning false.

exist find files “*.NK2” of folder “C:\Documents and Settings\fongrob\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook”

False

exist files “exchange.NK2” of folder “C:\Documents and Settings\fongrob\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook”

True