A file find app that uses C++ threads to search concurrently.
- The project was developed with C++20 standards and the build system configures it to build for that. This is the minimum required standard.
- It was tested with clang++ 14.0.6.
- The builds system checks for clang-tidy and uses it if it finds it.
There is a build script provided to help build the application. Please run it in the top project directory.
There are two build types available Debug and Release.
The script will create a build directory and place the generated binaries inside, under "build/build_type"/src.
./build.sh <Debug | Release> : Builds the threaded file finder app.
./build/Release/src/file_finder directory substr1 substr2 ...: Runs the app to search for substrs in directory.
Once the app starts running, it will immediately start searching for the filenames with the substrings, in the search directory.
While the app is running, dump command will dump the contents of the shared container to the console and exit command
will trigger the clean-up process and exit the application.
- The input is passed in the order of directory first, then substrings and they are delimited by spaces as shown in the
example
file-finder tmp aaa bbb ccc. - The application runs until the exit command is given, it does not exit by itself.
- The maximum number of substrings that can be searched is limited to the amount of concurrent threads that can be run by the host device.
- The periodic dump of the contents of the shared container is set to 200ms.
- Substrings will consist of valid characters that can't be interpreted by the shell in other ways.