Linux-based parallel grep runner in C

A multithreaded parallel grep runner program written in C that divides the workload of searching through all file contents in a directory tree among parallel threads

Sample Run

Consider the list of directories and files in the image below

We have the following:

• walkthrough
• dir1
• dir2
• dir3
• dir4
• dir5
• 5 absent text files with contents that do not contain the string 'cs140'
• 1 present text file with content that do contain the string 'cs140'

String to be searched for: cs140

Shown in the image below is the content of present.txt

Running the following in the command line:
./multithreaded 3 /media/sf_cs140/cs140221project2-w-coronel/walkthrough/ cs140
Command line arguments:

• argv[0]: ./multithreaded
• argv[1]: 3 (number of workers/threads)
• argv[2]: /media/sf_cs140/cs140221project2-w-coronel/walkthrough/ (path)
• argv[3]: cs140 (string to be searched for)

We get the following output:

As we can see from the screenshot above, the program outputted one PRESENT, five ABSENTs, and six DIRs.
Moreover, we can see the number of workers/threads that did the process of searching