How to start a ClamAV scan from the command line

Introduction

This article discusses how to start a ClamAV scan.

Procedure

A ClamAV scan can be started from the command line with a command similar to the following, where $user is the cPanel account username:

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/clamscan -ir /home/$user/public_html

A scan of all users can be started with the following command.

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/clamscan -r /home*/*/public_html