Command-Line Arguments

To launch Dr.Web for Linux GUI from the command line of the operating system, 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) displays the information about supported command-line parameters and terminates operation of the GUI.

--version (-v) displays the information on the GUI version.

--Autonomous (-a) runs the autonomous copy of the Dr.Web for Linux GUI.

--FullScan starts the full scan task upon Dr.Web for Linux GUI startup.

--ExpressScan starts the express scan task upon Dr.Web for Linux GUI startup.

--CustomScan starts the custom scan task upon Dr.Web for Linux GUI startup (opens page for selection of objects to scan).

Example:

$ drweb-gui /home/user/

This command launches Dr.Web for Linux GUI, then Scanner starts scanning the files in the specified directory (the corresponding task will be appear in the list of current scans).