Python implementation to recursively search a set of directories and locate a query string within ascii or unicode files in those directories. I built this for two reasons: 1) locating (by line number) function/variable definitions and calls within source code of large projects. 2) Even with utilities like grep, I wanted specifically the output that PySearch provides.

Getting started is easy, you can use git clone to pull this down onto your machine or directly download the file. Make sure to set it as executable with chmod +x pysearch.py if you would like to be able to call it directly. Another beneficial install step would be to add a symlink in one of your system's $PATH directories (I usually add personal executables to /home/myuser/bin/). Example output for searching the string filelist in the project's current directory:

user@host> pysearch
Path to search (press Enter for current directory): 
Query to search in files: filelist
-- /home/jconner/Projects/Python/PySearch/pysearch.py --
6: filelist = []
11: filelist.extend(get_file_listing(itempath))
13: filelist.append(itempath)
14: return filelist
17: def search_filelist(user_query, filelist, verbose=True):
18: """searches each file in filelist for the user query.
26: for fname in filelist:
56: filelist = get_file_listing(base_dir)
58: search_filelist(user_query, filelist)

The only prerequisite for this project is Python 3. Most GNU/Linux and BSD distributions will have some version of Python 3 already installed. If not, use your distribution's package manager to find and install python3 on your system.

Distributions using apt:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python3

Distributions using dnf:

sudo dnf install python3

Distributions using pacman:

You're using Arch Linux. Come on, you know full well Python3 is already installed.

Windows:

I don't know, I don't care. Figure it out.

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development env running

Say what the step will be

git clone <this repo>

• Python3 - Python 3 docs.

Fork and do whatever!

• Drew Conner - Initial work - BlinkingBoxes

please see LICENSE

• I tried using grep to do a search the other day to look for a function within the frrouting source code and it spent about 5 minutes doing nothing. Without that, this project would never have happened. Thanks, grep!