Searching for Applications installed in a users Download Folder

If you do add ~/Downloads to the inventory it might be a good idea to remove it again shortly after you find what you're after to save the clogging up the database a bit - depending on your organisation size and use case.

This is the EA we use to gather this info:

#!/bin/sh

# Function to get list of Apps and their full paths
APPS () {
    for APP in /Users/*/Downloads/*.app; do
        /bin/echo $APP
    done
}

/bin/echo "<result>$( APPS )</result>"

exit

We do something similar for PKGs and DMGs in users' Downloads folder and on the Desktop.

I add /Users/ instead of just the user's downloads. Of course you can limit it to just ~ so it's only the active user.
The problem we've found is that users have apps in their Downloads, Desktop, ~/Applications (or called My Apps or something else). This does take longer for inventory to complete but at least I have a complete inventory.

Took the above from @aporlebeke and added the username at login variable

#!/bin/sh
#Get the logged in user
user=$(ls -l /dev/console | awk '/ / { print $3 }')

# Function to get list of DMGs and their full paths
DMG () {
    for DMG in /Users/$user/Downloads/*.dmg; do
        /bin/echo $DMG
    done
}

/bin/echo "<result>$( DMG )</result>"

exit