goscan

goscan is a simple tool to find keywords in text, binary, and archive files.

It copies files to be scanned into a temporary scratch space and recursively walks directory trees to unarchive, decompress, and scan files with a configurable list of keywords.

Install

go get -u github.com/joelanford/goscan

Using a ramdisk

goscan can use a ramdisk to dramatically increase performance for large archives and compressed files. Using a ramdisk is supported on macOS and Linux, only. Linux users will need root privileges to use a ramdisk.

By default, ramdisk scratch space is disabled. To enable it, set -scratch.ramdisk.enable=true on the command line

Dependencies

unar

goscan also requires the unar command line tool

CentOS

sudo yum install -y unar

Debian

sudo apt-get install -y unar

macOS

brew install unar

Windows

Download and install from here: http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/unar1.8.1_win.zip

NOTE: You must extract all of the files in the zip into a location on your path.

Usage

Usage: goscan [options] <scanfiles>
  -basedir string
        Scratch directory for scan unarchiving (default "/tmp/")
  -context int
        Context to capture around each hit (default 10)
  -hitsonly
        Only output results containing hits
  -output.file string
        Results output file ("-" for stdout) (default "-")
  -output.format string
        Results output format (default "json")
  -parallelism int
        Number of goroutines to use to scan files (default 8)
  -policies string
        Comma-separated list of keyword policies (default "all")
  -ramdisk.enable
        Enable ramdisk scratch directory
  -ramdisk.size int
        Size of ramdisk (in MB) to use as scratch space (default 4096)
  -words string
        YAML keywords file