Running clamscan with the file list function

Question

I am trying to schedule some tasks using ClamAV but it cannot find the find the file that contains the directories I want it to scan.

  *Using sudo doesn't work.
  *The files are set with permissions 644.
  *Files are visible in command line as white.

My goal is to use these lists so that different folders of the server can be scanned during low usage times. I am running this on CentOS 7.

[ENTRY]
#clamscan -r -i –file-list=/home/web_folders.txt --log=/var/log/clamav/clamscan_web.log

[ERROR]
–file-list=/home/web_folders.txt: No such file or directory
WARNING: –file-list=/home/web_folders.txt: Can't access file

Are you sure it's `/home/web_folders.txt` and not rather `~/web_folders.txt`? (e.g. your user's home directory?) — digijay, Sep 12 '20 at 04:50
I did this to test that theory out. I created a folder /var/config and modified the script to clamscan -r -i –file-list=./var/config/web_folders.txt --log=/var/log/clamav/clamscan_web.log Same Issue — NoNo, Sep 14 '20 at 20:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '20 at 00:24

You copied and pasted a Unicode character that looks like a hyphen, but is not actually.

The character you pasted was –, which an en dash.

The actual character you should be using is -, which is a plain hyphen as it appears on your keyboard. In this case you should have two of them, i.e. --file-list=...

This is an error in whatever tutorial you were reading. Some content management systems change hyphens into Unicode dashes if they aren't properly escaped in that CMS's editor.

Running clamscan with the file list function

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