NAME¶

sigscan — scans a file for binary signatures

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

sigscan is a utility to scan a file for binary signatures

sigscan is part of the libsigscan package. libsigscan is a library to scan a file for binary signatures

source is the source file.

The options are as follows:

-c path

specify the configuration file, defaults to: sigscan.conf

-h

shows this help

-v

verbose output to stderr

-V

print version

ENVIRONMENT¶

None

FILES¶

None

EXAMPLES¶

# sigscan -c sigscan.conf qcow.bin
sigscan 20260627

Signature scanner:
	Number of scan results	: 1

Scan result: 1
	Identifier		: qcow

DIAGNOSTICS¶

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.

AUTHORS¶

Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>

BUGS¶

Please report bugs of any kind on the project issue tracker: https://github.com/libyal/libsigscan/issues

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2014-2026, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.