pillager: recursively search directories for sensitive information in files

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Pillager is designed to provide a simple means of leveraging Go’s strong concurrency model to recursively search directories for sensitive information in files. Pillager does this by standing on the shoulders of a few giants. Once pillager finds files that match the specified pattern, the file is scanned using a series of concurrent workers that each take a line of the file from the job queue and hunt for sensitive pattern matches. The available pattern filters can be found in the hunt command’s help page.

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