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In addition to the VX Search GUI application, VX Search Pro and VX Search Server provide a command line utility allowing one to execute file search operations from an OS shell window. The VX Search command line utility is located in <ProductDir>/bin directory. Command Line Syntax:
vxsearch -search <File Filter> -dir <Directory 1> [ ... Directory X ] Searches files in the specified directories, disks or network shares. vxsearch -search -name <File Name Text> -dir <Directory 1> [ ... Directory X ] Searches files containing the specified text in the file name. vxsearch -search -regex <Regular Expression> -dir <Directory 1> [ ... Directory X ] Searches files by the file name using a regular expression. vxsearch -search -md5 <MD5 Hash Signature> -dir <Directory 1> [ ... Directory X ] Searches files by the specified MD5 hash signature. vxsearch -search -sha1 <SHA1 Hash Signature> -dir <Directory 1> [ ... Directory X ] Searches files by the specified SHA1 hash signature. vxsearch -search -sha256 <SHA256 Hash Signature> -dir <Directory 1> [ ... Directory X ] Searches files by the specified SHA256 hash signature. vxsearch -search <File Filter> -server <hostname1;hostname2;hostnameX> Searches files in all network shares of the specified servers or NAS storage devices. vxsearch -search <File Filter> -network Searches files in all servers and/or NAS storage devices detected on the network. vxsearch -search <XML Search Rules File> -dir <Directory 1> [ ... Directory X ] Searches files in the specified directories, disks or network shares. vxsearch -execute <Search Profile Name> Executes the specified file search operation. vxsearch -execute <XML Search Command File> Executes the specified file search operation. Parameters:
-dir <Directory> This parameter specifies an input directory, disk or a network share for the file search operation. In order to ensure proper parsing of command line arguments, directories containing space characters should be double quoted. Options:
-save_pdf_report [ File Name ] Saves a PDF file search report to the specified file. -save_excel_report [ File Name ] Saves an Excel file search report to the specified file. -save_html_report [ File Name ] Saves an HTML file search report to the specified file. -save_text_report [ File Name ] Saves a text file search report to the specified file. -save_csv_report [ File Name ] Saves a CSV file search report to the specified file. -save_xml_report [ File Name ] Saves an XML file search report to the specified file. -save_report [ File Name ] Saves search results to the VX Search native report format. -save_to_database Saves search results to an SQL database. -save_to_database_table <Table Name> Saves search results to the specified SQL database table. -title <Report Title> Sets the report title. -compress Instructs to export a GZ compressed report. -show_users This option enables processing and display of files user names. -scanners <Max Dir Scan Threads> This option sets the maximum number of parallel directory scanning threads. -streams <File Search Threads> This option sets the number of parallel file search threads. -perf <FULL | MEDIUM | LOW> This parameter controls the speed of the storage analysis process.
FULL - Full-speed storage analysis -v Shows the product major version, minor version, revision and build date. -help Shows the command line usage information.
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