On Tue, 19 May 2009 15:49:23 +0100
Mark Allan <
markjallan@gmail.com> 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,
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