def searchDirForString()

in vmassist/linux/vmassist.py [0:0]

• 17 lines of code
• 5 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def searchDirForString(dirToSearch, returnDict, string):
  for root, _, files in os.walk(dirToSearch):
    # loop through all files in the dirToSearch
    for file_name in files:
      file_path = os.path.join(root, file_name)
      # Check if it's a regular file (skip links, sockets, pipes, etc.)
      if os.path.isfile(file_path):
        try:
          # Create a holding space for any/all matched text
          defLines=""
          # Open this file and search for the string
          with open(file_path, 'r') as file:
            for line_number, line in enumerate(file, start=1):
              # store the line number and line in the return string
              if string in line:
                # after the first occurrance add a newline every time we find a line
                if (defLines):
                  defLines = f"{defLines}\n"
                defLines = f"{defLines}{line_number}: {line.strip()}"
          # if we found anything create the file entry in the dict with all lines
          if ( defLines ):
            returnDict[file_path] = defLines
        except (UnicodeDecodeError, PermissionError):
          # Skip files that can't be read due to encoding or permission issues
          # just create the exception code block, but we won't be using it
          pass