Thanks you Tilman. >From what I understand, xargs passes the command line arguments in batches, launching clamscan once for each batch.
Veselin On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:41:18AM +0200, Tilman Schmidt 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. > > -- > Tilman Schmidt > Phoenix Software GmbH > Bonn, Germany > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
