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I'm running a clamscan command to scan my users home directories, I'd like to exclude images from the scan as these sites specifically have thousands of images.

Rui F Ribeiro
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clamscan --exclude='\\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$'
  • \\. is the . in the file extension.
  • (jpg|jpeg|png|gif) matches any of those strings.
  • $ pins the search to the end of the line.

This, therefore, should exclude all files ending in .jpg, .jpeg, .png, and .gif.

Kusalananda
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  • is it case sensitive? – Luka May 15 '19 at 19:10
  • `Case-Insensitive [i] Specifying the i modifier causes ClamAV to match all alphabetic hex bytes as case-insensitive. All patterns in ClamAV are case-sensitive by default.` I always run with `clamscan -ri` haha, silly me. – Luka May 15 '19 at 19:17