Finding a process's file path (or directory) on OSX

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I’m working with the Bomgar remote system, and trying to build a task that uninstalls their client via command line. After sleuthing around a bit on this annoyingly underdocumented client, I found the executable has an -uninstall option. But, the path varies according to an internal serializing system:

/Users/Shared/bomgar-scc-[string].app/Contents/MacOS/sdcust

I can use relevance to find systems that have a running copy of sdcust…

exist process whose (name of it is "sdcust")

…but the Mac inspectors don’t provide processes’ command line and arguments. (Rant: And really, why doesn’t ‘exist process “sdcust”’ work??)

Can relevance discover and parse a variable path? (On OSX they also write launch plists, but those filenames are similarly serialized.)

Thanks,
Andrew

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Yes, you can get folders or files or other things without actually needing to know the exact path:

pathname of files "Contents/MacOS/sdcust" of folders whose(name of it as lowercase starts with "bomgar-scc-" AND name of it as lowercase ends with ".app") of folders "/Users/Shared"
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Brilliant! Thank you James.

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I’ll look at that… seems like a parity issue (as it works on Windows)

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Pinning it down a bit more, this worked for me:

pathname of files “sdcust” of folders “Contents/MacOS” of folders whose (name of it as lowercase starts with “bomgar-scc-” AND name of it as lowercase ends with “.app”) of folders “/Users/Shared”

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Thank you @AlanM. At the moment (pathname of process “sdcust”) would be immensely helpful. :smile:

And FWIW, whilie this works in the Mac QnA

exist process whose (name of it is "sdcust")

It doesn’t seem to work as a task relevance.

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That should be equivalent to my relevance.

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That actually makes no sense (its the same code) so I’ll have to look at that too

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Alas, @jgstew, your relevance didn’t resolve for me in QnA.

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FWIW, I’m using client 9.2.4.2 on OS X 10.10.3.

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Interesting. I didn’t test it in QnA but it should work on Windows… I just assumed it worked on Mac the same way.

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Following up…

Turns out this was a PEBCAK error. I had the task in a site where it couldn’t possibly be relevant.

Apologies…

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