def main()

in cortado/rtas/builtin_cmd_file_delete.py [0:0]

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

def main():
    masquerade = "/tmp/xargs"
    masquerade2 = "/tmp/rm"
    # used only for linux at 2 places to enumerate xargs as parent process.
    working_dir = "/tmp/fake_folder/xargs"
    if _common.get_current_os() == OSType.LINUX:
        # Using the Linux binary that simulates parent-> child process in Linux
        source = _common.get_resource_path("bin/linux_ditto_and_spawn_parent_child")
        _common.copy_file(source, masquerade)
        _common.copy_file(source, masquerade2)
        # As opposed to macos, where the masquerade is being projected as parent process,
        # in linux the working directory is being projected as parent process.
        # Hence, to simulate the parent process without many changes to execute logic
        # a fake folder structure is created for execution.
        # The execution working directory is changed to the fake folder, to simulate as xargs parent process in Linux.
        pathlib.Path(working_dir).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
        os.chdir(working_dir)
    else:
        _common.create_macos_masquerade(masquerade)
        _common.create_macos_masquerade(masquerade2)

    # Execute command
    log.info("Launching fake builtin commands to recursively delete")
    command = f"{masquerade2} -rf arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4 arg5 arg6 arg7 arg8 arg9 arg10 /home/test"
    _ = _common.execute_command([masquerade, "childprocess", command], timeout_secs=10)

    # cleanup
    _common.remove_file(masquerade)
    _common.remove_file(masquerade2)
    current_os = _common.get_current_os()
    if current_os == OSType.LINUX:
        _common.remove_directory(working_dir)