How to exclude .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif from a ClamAV Scan (clamscan)

Question

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.

Solution

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.

Comments

[Luka]

is it case sensitive?

[Luka]

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.