On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 at 8:23:00 -0400, Rick Stanley wrote:
> I was not clear enough in my original message.
>
> I am running clamscan from a Knoppix Live-CD to scan a Windows drive,
> logging to a file in memory. I want to see most of the information
> messages, warnings, errors, and of course, instances of infections, but
> don't want or need to see, nor record the 590 empty files on the drive.
> This should be a fairly simple switch to implement, and wanted to submit
> this as a feature request to the developers. They know the code much
> better than myself. Syslog seems to be overkill just to do a quick
> one-time malware scan.
If I understand your needs correctly,
'-i' option ("Only print infected files") is the solution for you.
Present in clamscan for years.
P.S.
Please don't top-post.
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