Recursive search by content

recursive-search-content.py

"""
Recursive search by file content.
By Juan C. Roldán (https://juancroldan.com/)
Just change WORDS to whichever strings you are looking for.
"""
from os import listdir
from os.path import isdir

WORDS = ["this is a test", "localhost"]

def search(words, path = "."):
	res = []
	for f in listdir(path):
		child_path = path + "/" + f
		if isdir(child_path):
			res.extend(search(words, child_path))
		else:
			with open(child_path, "r", encoding = "utf-8", errors = "ignore") as fp:
				data = fp.read()
			if any(word in data for word in words):
				res.append(child_path)
	return res

print("\n".join(search(WORDS)))