There was a change in 0.99 which meant if the freshclam tool was called from something other than a terminal (tty), the progress percentage wouldn't be shown. The intended usage with the new --show-progress flag is to force the progress percentage to be shown even if freshclam is not called from a tty - e.g. being called from third party software.
Mark > On 3 Mar 2016, at 10:48 am, Andreas Schulze <andreas.schu...@datev.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > the parameter seem to be new in freshclam Version 0.99.1 > but download progress percentage is shown here in earlier versions too. > > what's the intended usage? > > -- > A. Schulze > DATEV eG > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml