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Alexey Abramov
Alexey Abramov

Reputation: 503

GitHub Actions // PowerShell // recursive file search applying pylint

I'm looking for a PowerShell version of the following Linux command for CI with GitHub actions:

find . -name "*.py" -not -path "./exclude_dir/*" | xargs pylint

here is where I'm now:

get-childitem -path $pwd -include *.py -recurse -name

at the moment I have no idea how to exclude "exclude_dir" and apply pylint to the selected python files.

Any help would be very appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Best, Alexey

Upvotes: 0

Views: 345

Answers (1)

mklement0
mklement0

Reputation: 439058

While Get-ChildItem does have an -Exclude parameter, it only operates on the file-name part, not on the full path.

Therefore, you must perform the exclusion filtering after the fact, using the negated form of -like, the wildcard matching operator

pylint ((Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Name -Filter *.py) -notlike 'exclude_dir/*')

Note the use of -Filter rather than -Include, which speeds up the operation, because filtering happens at the source rather than being applied by PowerShell after the fact.

However, given that you're seemingly only excluding a single top-level folder, you could try:

pylint (Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path * -Filter *.py -Exclude exclude_dir)

Note that I've omitted -Name in this case, because it wouldn't work properly in this scenario. As a result, the matching files are implicitly passed as full paths to pylint.

As of PowerShell 7.0, -Name exhibits several problematic behaviors, which are summarized in this answer.

Upvotes: 1

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