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VirusScan
®
Command Line 5.20.0 Product Guide
Using the Command-Line Scanner
Choosing the options
3
Report options
By default, the results of a scan appear on-screen. The following table lists the options
for displaying the results elsewhere. To capture a scanner report to a text file, use
/REPORT
with any additional options as needed. For examples, see
Producing reports
on page 24
.
Table 3-4 Report options
Option
Limitations
Description
/APPEND
Use this option
with
/REPORT
.
Append information to the specified report file instead of
overwriting it.
/HTML
<FILENAME>
None.
Create a file containing the results in HTML format.
/
LOUD
None
Display a progress summary during the scan.
Note that this option can produce a large amount of information.
/REPORT
<FILENAME>
Do not use
with
/PAUSE
.
Create a report of infected files and system errors, and save the
data to the specified file in ASCII text file format.
If that file already exists,
/REPORT
overwrites it. To avoid
overwriting, use the
/APPEND
option with
/REPORT
. The
scanner then adds report information to the end of the file,
instead of overwriting it.
You can also use
/RPTALL
,
/RPTCOR
and
/RPTERR
to add
more information to the report.
You can include the destination drive and directory (such as
D:\VSREPRT\ALL.TXT
), but if the destination is a network
drive, you must have rights to create and delete files on that
drive.
You may find it helpful to add a list of scanning options to the
report files. To do this, type at the command prompt:
SCAN /HELP /APPEND /REPORT
<FILENAME>
We recommend you do not use
/PAUSE
when using any report
option.
/RPTALL
Use with
/REPORT
.
Include the names of all scanned files in the report file.
/RPTCOR
Use with
/REPORT
.
Include a list of corrupted files in the report file.
/RPTERR
Use with
/REPORT
.
Include system errors in the report file.
System errors can include problems reading or writing to a disk
or hard disk, file system or network problems, problems
creating reports, and other system-related problems.
/VIRLIST
None.
Display the name of each virus that the scanner can detect.
This option produces a long list, which is best viewed from a
text file. To do this, type:
SCAN /VIRLIST /REPORT
<FILENAME.TXT>
For full details about each virus, see the Virus Information
Library (see
Contact information
on page 9
).