Command Line Arguments

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To start Dr.Web for Linux graphical management interface from the command line, the following command is used:

$ drweb-gui [<path>[ <path> ...] | <parameters>]

where <path> is the path to be scanned. You can specify several paths to scan, delimited by whitespaces.

You can also specify the following parameters (<parameters>):

--help (-h)—Show information about supported command-line parameters and terminate operation of the graphical management interface.

--version (-v)—Show information on the graphical management interface version and terminate the operation.

--Autonomous (-a)—Run the autonomous copy of the Dr.Web for Linux graphical management interface.

--FullScan—Start the full scan task upon Dr.Web for Linux graphical management interface startup.

--ExpressScan—Start the express scan task upon Dr.Web for Linux graphical management interface startup.

--CustomScan—Start the custom scan task upon Dr.Web for Linux graphical management interface startup (page for selection of objects to scan will open).

Example:

$ drweb-gui /home/user/

This command instructs Dr.Web for Linux graphical management interface to run and then Scanner starts scanning the files in the specified directory (the corresponding task will be appear in the list of current scans).