If it's expecting a regex, perhaps try:
--exclude-dir="/mnt/c/Program Files \(x86\)/"
without the quotes, that would probably be:
--exclude-dir=/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \\(x86\\)/
Depending on the flavour of regex used, the parentheses may indicate
grouping in the regex, so may need to be escaped with a backslash to
match literal parentheses. In the second example, the backslashes
forming part of the regex need to be escaped themselves to avoid being
interpreted specially by the shell.
I'm not on Windows so can't try those to see if they do work - it was
just a thought that might (or might not) help.
Mark.
Richard Rosner via clamav-users wrote:
> Hey Marc,
> that doesn't seem to be always the solution. In fact, I just installed
> clamscan in a Debian based WSL (1) instance, same problem. Only
> difference: exclusion of Program Files seems to work, but not of Program
> FIles (x86). I tried both --exclude-dir=/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/
> and --exclude-dir="/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/". Didn't help.
>
> Richard
>
> Am Sa., 28. Jan. 2023 um 13:04 Uhr schrieb newcomer01 via clamav-users
> <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net <mailto:clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>>:
>
> Hello Richard,
>
> maybe it is now time to switch to Linux? ????
> Here we have lot of options to exculde and include paths for
> scanning (with regex support too) ????
> Sorry, i have no experience with clamav on Win as reason that I
> switched long time ago to Ubuntu LTS
> But filesize problems while scan we have on Linux too.
>
> Hope that someone other user can support you with the Win Version of
> clamav.
>
> kind regards,
> Marc
>
>
> Von / From: Clamav User Mailinglist
> <mailto:clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
> <mailto:clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>>
> An / To: Newcomer01 <mailto:newcomer01@posteo.de
> <mailto:newcomer01@posteo.de>>
> CC / CC: Richard Rosner <mailto:rrosner5@gmail.com
> <mailto:rrosner5@gmail.com>>
> Gesendet / Sent: Samstag, Januar 28, 2023 um 12:49 (at 12:49 PM) +0100
> Betreff / Subject: [clamav-users] clamscan exclude-dir on Windows
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to make a full scan of my PC with clamscan.exe on
> Win10. Unfortunately, my C Volume is too big and my PC too slow to
> finish the scan in a day. So of course when I start it the next day,
> I want to exclude larger directories that already have been scanned.
> That works great with some directories, but I just can't figure out
> a way to exclude C:\Program Files\ and C:\Program Files (x86)\ from
> the scan. And I did try many variations. "C:\\Program Files
> (x86)\\", "C:\\Program Files*\\", %ProgramFiles(x86)%\\,
> C:\\"Program Files (x86)"\\ or "C:\\Program^ Files^ ^(x86^)\\" but
> nothing works. Sadly, Googling for that also doesn't bring up
> anything helpful.
> >
> > Can anybody make any suggestions? And could such tips be included
> to the documentation or somewhere else?
> >
> > Best Greeting
> > Richard
> >
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