Command Line Tools; Avgscan Command - AVG 8.5 ANTI-VIRUS - LINUX-FREEBSD REV 85.2 User Manual

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Command Line Tools

All command-line utilities are run by symbolic links (in /usr/bin) to avgwrapper.sh
script. The script exports the necessary environment variables, and runs the
respective binary. Binaries should be used under the user the AVG product is installed
under (default "root").
Any action launched via command-line can be aborted by CTRL+c, however, this will
not work if a component executes a critical action (breaking a critical action is NOT
recommended), e.g. during update when setting new configuration.
Please note that any multistring values must be put into quotation marks.
Common parameters:
-h, --help Display help.
-v, --version Display version.

4.1. AVGSCAN Command

The avgscan binary is intended to perform various on-demand tests via avgd
daemon. Its performance is comprehensively controlled by the command line
parameters. All scans are run multi-thread and independent, therefore it is possible to
run more than one scan at a time; however scanning performance will not be
increased this way.
Note: If there is no shared memory available, memory usage will increase with each
parallel running scan process. It is HIGHLY recommended that shared memory is
enabled on the system, especially for server installation. Enabling shared memory (on
both Linux and FreeBSD):
sysctl kernel.shmmax=<shared memory size>
Options:
-x, --exclude=<path>
-e, --ext=<extension>
-n, --noext=<extension>
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Exclude path from scan. Multiple --exclude options can be
specified.
Scan files with specified extension. Multiple --ext options
can be specified. Cannot be used with --noext.
Exclude files with specified extension. Multiple --noext
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