Kamens, Jonathan wrote: > On the other hand, I don't quite view clamscan as being a pipeline > tool of the same genre as sed, tr, etc. I think of it as a > full-fledged application, and as such, I think it's reasonable for > this kind of functionality to be built into it if it's something that > a lot of people are going to find useful. > > Other applications in the same genre with similar functionality > include rsync, rdiff-backup, and GNU tar. All of those, like > clamscan, could force the user to implement exclude / include > functionality externally and then feed a file list into the > application, and yet all of them provide complex, flexible built-in > filtering functionality of their own.
They also typically provide a '--with-files-from=' option which might be the right thing for clamscan too. /Per Jessen, Zürich _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
