why not just use the --log argument?

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:41 AM, Tilman Schmidt <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Veselin Kantsev schrieb:
>
>> I have a script that finds files that have been modified in the last
>> N days from a folder and then passes the list to clamscan.
>>
>> I'm using "cat LIST.txt | xargs -0 clamscan -ir --stdout >> REPORT.txt"
>>
>> When the scan is finished the report looks like this:
>>
>> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
>> Known viruses: 396676
>> Engine version: 0.93.1
>> Scanned directories: 0
>> Scanned files: 684
>> Infected files: 0
>> Data scanned: 440.22 MB
>> Time: 51.853 sec (0 m 51 s)
>>
>> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
>> Known viruses: 396676
>> Engine version: 0.93.1
>> Scanned directories: 0
>> Scanned files: 86
>> Infected files: 0
>> Data scanned: 41.97 MB
>> Time: 6.677 sec (0 m 6 s)
>>
>>
>> Why are there two summaries?
>>
>
> Because the xargs command in your script ran clamscan twice.
>
>  Sometimes when I'm searching for files in multiple folders there is even
>> more summaries generated.
>>
>
> That's how xargs works. See "man xargs".
>
> HTH
> T.
>
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> Tilman Schmidt
> Phoenix Software GmbH
> Bonn, Germany
>
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