According to the man page 'freshclam --version' should produce the version number and nothing more:
# freshclam --version ERROR: Parse error at line 37: Unknown option ScriptedUpdates. ERROR: Please edit the example config file /etc/clamd.conf. ERROR: Can't parse the config file /etc/clamd.conf /Per Jessen, Zürich _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net