From 84bd3246b2ee68fd5e42097a208989cddcfc0301 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Nering <andreynering@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:21:49 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] feat(fsext): add function to search for something in parent
 directories

---
 internal/fsext/parent.go | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 internal/fsext/parent.go

diff --git a/internal/fsext/parent.go b/internal/fsext/parent.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a9e58cd6d7f208fca4023b2fd8ba70753026ea0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/fsext/parent.go
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package fsext
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+)
+
+// SearchParent searches for a target file or directory starting from dir
+// and walking up the directory tree until found or root or home is reached.
+// Returns the full path to the target if found, empty string and false otherwise.
+// The search includes the starting directory itself.
+func SearchParent(dir, target string) (string, bool) {
+	absDir, err := filepath.Abs(dir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", false
+	}
+
+	path := filepath.Join(absDir, target)
+	if _, err := os.Stat(path); err == nil {
+		return path, true
+	} else if !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+		return "", false
+	}
+
+	previousParent := absDir
+
+	for {
+		parent := filepath.Dir(previousParent)
+		if parent == previousParent || parent == HomeDir() {
+			return "", false
+		}
+
+		path := filepath.Join(parent, target)
+		if _, err := os.Stat(path); err == nil {
+			return path, true
+		} else if !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+			return "", false
+		}
+
+		previousParent = parent
+	}
+}