Regex Scanner

Table of Contents

• About Regex Scanner
• Supported actions
• Agent source

About Regex Scanner

A Fossology agent creation "Tutorial" in multiple stages.

This is stage 3 and demonstrates the fundamental agent requirements:

1. Connect to database
2. Connect to Scheduler
3. Process -r as a regex argument
4. Process filename and report regex scan results from command line
5. Process upload file collection from upload_pk stdin input
6. Terminate

Supported actions

Usage: regexscan [options] [id [id ...]]

Command line flag	Description
-i	Initialize the database, then exit
-c SYSCONFDIR	FOSSology configuration directory
-h	Show available command line options
-v	Increase agent logging verbosity
-r	Regex expression to load from command line
filename	Filename to process with regex

Agent source

• src/regexscan/agent