Idea: additional options for file search
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- Dominant language
- Go
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Description
Very helpful tool, for compliance reasons, we built a similar (but worse) tool internally to do this. We run this tool on people's local workstations to detect PII at regular intervals.
For us, it would be very helpful to have the following additional config options when searching for files
- include/exclude file types
- exclude certain subdirectories (we want to run on Macos with directory /Users/, but want to exclude mounted drives like for remote MSFT files that could be mounted at /Users//OneDrive)
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Research direction
The issue requests file-type inclusion/exclusion and subdirectory exclusion for workstation scans, but names no files or tests. Start by locating the file-search entry point and existing configuration or CLI option handling; done means both filters work for the stated /Users/ and mounted-drive cases, with tests covering them.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cli, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100