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Take input files to scan from a config file. #154

Open gerhardj opened 3 years ago

gerhardj commented 3 years ago

Hi, I defined my targets to be scanned as a number of symbolic links. Then I call bulk_extractor in recursive mode:

bulk_extractor -R my_targets/ -o my_output

But it seems, BE doesn't follow symbolic links, so nothing is scanned. And there seems to be no option to change that.

simsong commented 3 years ago

It doesn’t follow symbolic links to avoid loops and to prevent a mounted file system from analyzing your host directory. How many symlinks are in your link directory? Why not run it for each target and combine the outputs?

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 Hi, I defined my targets to be scanned as a number of symbolic links. Then I call bulk_extractor in recursive mode:

bulk_extractor -R my_targets/ -o my_output

But it seems, BE doesn't follow symbolic links, so nothing is scanned. And there seems to be no option to change that.

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gerhardj commented 3 years ago

I see. I will do so, but I have to investigate more on how to do the combination and postprocessing manually. These are between 100 and 100,000 targets.

simsong commented 3 years ago

How about an input config file that specifies the targets?

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 I see. I will do so, but I have to investigate more on how to do the combination and postprocessing manually. These are between 100 and 100,000 targets.

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