Re: Clamdscan recurses

Hello Sean

Le 06/10/2025 à 15:11, Sean Curran via clamav-users a écrit :
> Newbie Question,
> 
> I use the clamscan util to recursively scan a given filesystem.
> 
> Am I missing  something about how to get clamdscan to recurse... Because 
> I cannot find a setting to get it to recurse even one dir level without 
> hard coding something like /myfs/*/* ... ?
> 
> It ignores the "-r" from clamscan.
> 
> I'd like to scan a multi-TB filesystem periodically and clamscan will 
> take forever, so looking at clamdscan possibly.


clamdscan is recusive by default, so there is no '-r' option like clamscan.

Example :
clamdscan /opt
will scan /opt and all subdirectories.

If you want to get the fastest scan here is the trick :

https://www.securiteinfo.com/clamav-antivirus/faq-clamav-unofficial-signatures_en.shtml
Title "How to perform an antivirus scan as quickly as possible?"


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