On Tue, 19 May 2009 15:49:23 +0100 Mark Allan <markjal...@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, -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <tk...@clamav.net> (\/)\......... 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
