"clamscan" executing in parallel with "-j" argument

Dear the developers of "clamav",

Thanks for reading this email,

Currently, `clamscan` can only run in single thread, which is not so efficient if the user want to conduct a dedicate virus scanning without starting `clamd` service.

It would be nice to travel the target directory and pass the target file path to multiple working thread/process.

The order of files during scanning is not important.

Some times, the users just don't want to enable `clamd` service for a single scanning and some other times, the users have no permission to start `clamd` service.

Is this feature beneficial and feasible?

Cheers.

Steven Lee

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