Jamf Pro is not picking up BeyondTrust Remote Assist in Applications with current version

[AJPinto]

Random puzzle for the day. I had an issue that I was over thinking and did not realize the vendor just changed the application name, but it raised a question that I wanted to solve for funzies. 

You have a plist that you need to read CFBundleGetInfoString from (not that this ever happens), but the path to the plist has a random folder name in it (the example I was working on is the application vendor uses a random string at the end of the app name for whatever reason). Due to the variable, defaults cannot be used to read the plist. I was using find which works fine locally to identify the path of the plist but would take too long for an extension attribute and would make check-ins take too long.

find /Applications -name "*.app" -print | grep "/Remote Support Customer Client.app/Contents/Info.plist" | while readplist; do defaults read "$plist" | grep CFBundleGetInfoString | awk -F'"' '{print substr($2, 1, 8)}' done

 ~ % defaults read /Applications/.com.Application.scc.66ABEF6D/Remote\ Support\ Customer\ Client.app/Contents/Info.plist | grep CFBundleGetInfoString | awk -F'"' '{print substr($2, 1, 6)}'
24.1.2

Again, Jamf is getting the data we need, I was curious of how to accomplish the task. Jamf is clearly doing it already, possibly even using the find command, but I was wondering if any of you guys have a different way to approach this?

[sdagley]

Try the "mdfind" command to use Spotlight's database to find the app via the bundle identifier. As an example here's an EA to find all copies of Firefox in the /Applications directory:

#!/bin/bash

# EA - Find all non-current Firefox apps in /Applications

OIFS=$IFS
IFS=$'\n'
files=($(mdfind -onlyin "/Applications" "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == org.mozilla.firefox"))
IFS=$OIFS

result=0
# Loop through all found copies and check to see if they're not version 128.0.3
for AppPath in "${files[@]}"
do
	if [[ -e "$AppPath/Contents/Info.plist" ]]; then
  		AppVersion=$(/usr/bin/defaults read "$AppPath/Contents/Info.plist" CFBundleShortVersionString)
  		if [[ "$AppVersion" != "128.0.3" ]]; then
  			((result++))
  		fi
	fi
done

echo "<result>$result</result>"

[AJPinto]

I ultimately landed on using cat binary which I forgot could read plists and supports wildcards. In the example below I'm reading a .ini instead of a plist, but it also works for plists. That is a nifty EA you have their, I may steal it lol.

#!/bin/bash

#=============================================================================
# Script Name: Version Beyond Trust Support Client
# Created: 
# Author:
#=============================================================================

# Find the settings.ini file(s)
files=$(ls /Users/Shared/.com.bomgar*/settings.ini 2>/dev/null)

# Check if any file is found
if [ -n "$files" ]; then
    ApplicationVersion=$(cat $files | grep build_version | sort -u | sed 's/.*build_version="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/')
    echo "<result>$ApplicationVersion</result>"
else
    echo "<result>Beyond Trust Support Client Not Installed</result>"
fi

exit 0