[Xymon] How to verify DIR content with wildcards on a Windows host?

[zep]

On 04/17/2018 05:27 AM, Anaïs RABINOIT wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> I have to check if a directory on a windows host contains files with
> a specific extension.
>
>
> If it was a Unix/Linux host, i just have to write something like that
> i guess :
>
> client-local.cfg :
>
>     file:`find /path/mydir/*.tst`
>
> analysis.cfg :
>
>     FILE    %(/path/mydir/*.tst)    noexist
>
>
> But how to do it for a Windows host? Is this possible ?
>
>
> I tried this for example :
>
>
> client-local.cfg :
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>     file:`cmd /c "dir /b /s C:\path\mydir\*.tst"`
>
> or
>
>     file:`cmd /c "dir /b /s \path\mydir\*.tst"`
>
>
> analysis.cfg :
>
>     FILE    "%C:\path\mydir\*.tst"    noexist
>
>
> But it doesn't work :(
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Anaïs
>

I'm not sure how viable it might be for your environment, but I'd
consider either installing the cygwin utilities to create a more unix
like environment or doing the heavy work with python or (for me, more
likely) perl.   either way would likely require some additional/external
tools which may have different implications for different people/groups.


C:\Users\a959784>c:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe -c "/bin/ls /cygdrive/c/tmp/*.txt"
/cygdrive/c/tmp/snip.txt
/cygdrive/c/tmp/greenfelder.txt
/cygdrive/c/tmp/typescript.txt
/cygdrive/c/tmp/key.txt

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