From clamav-devel-bounces@lists.clamav.net Thu May 21 16:08:31 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: list@tad.clamav.net Delivered-To: list@tad.clamav.net X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at tad.clamav.net Received: from tad.clamav.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tad.clamav.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yCrLmVAbISBf; Thu, 21 May 2009 16:08:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tad.clamav.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tad.clamav.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA4B616C2B6; Thu, 21 May 2009 16:08:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: clamav-devel@tad.clamav.net Delivered-To: clamav-devel@tad.clamav.net X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at tad.clamav.net Received: from tad.clamav.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tad.clamav.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AjX+N4P0JZVM for ; Thu, 21 May 2009 16:08:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from Quad (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tad.clamav.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BCB016C2B5 for ; Thu, 21 May 2009 16:08:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:08:32 +0200 From: Tomasz Kojm To: clamav-devel@lists.clamav.net Message-ID: <20090521160832.766fcea2@Quad> In-Reply-To: References: <40FF3EB574329C459B49338F779CE44E015D905BC7@bosmail2k7.advent.com> Organization: ClamAV X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Clamav-devel] PATCH: Enhanced exclude / include support for clamscan X-BeenThere: clamav-devel@lists.clamav.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: ClamAV Development List-Id: ClamAV Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: clamav-devel-bounces@lists.clamav.net Errors-To: clamav-devel-bounces@lists.clamav.net On Tue, 19 May 2009 15:49:23 +0100 Mark Allan wrote: > > On the one hand, you're right that were clamscan to have a command- > > line option to tell it to read a list of files on stdin, the logic I > > built into it could be implemented externally, either with home- > > grown scripts or with a separate utility bundled with clamav. I > > certainly wouldn't be adverse to achieving my goal that way, where > > that functionality to be provided by clamscan. > > I think this way would be much better than changing the interface, and > would have the added benefit of being significantly more powerful than > you probably realise. If we could supply a list of files either on > stdin or within a single text file passed on the command line with eg. > a -f flag, users and admins could incorporate ClamAV into scripts/ > tasks and automated jobs a lot more easily than is currently > possible. It would also eliminate another issue I've had to work > around which is the lack of case-insensitive regex matching - I could > perform my own matching and just supply filenames within a temporary > file or via stdin. I added support for --file-list/-f in both clamscan and clamdscan in SVN. Thanks, -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Thu May 21 16:07:38 CEST 2009 _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net