At 10:11 AM 9/8/2006, Dennis Peterson wrote:
Noel Jones wrote:
cat big.list.of.files | xargs clamscan
xargs is still limited by max line length, so this needs
to be done with care. Perl can also be used in place of
clamdscan to feed file names to clamd (which must be run
as root). The advantage of Perl is it can iterate over an
array and of course manage all the logging.
The general purpose of xargs is to split a huge list into
chunks less than max line length - lather, rinse, and
repeat. While the xargs command itself ("clamscan" in the
example) is subject to max line length, the input
("big.list.of.files") is not.
--
Noel Jones
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