[RAT-259] Allow configuration of files to be scanned for CLI module

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13
• Fix Version/s: 0.17
• Component/s: Client - cli
• Labels: documentation-update
• Assignee: Claude Warren
• Reporter: Philipp Ottlinger
• Created: 29/Oct/19 20:50
• Updated: 05/Dec/24 07:54
• Resolved: 28/Nov/24 22:05

Description

After talks at ApacheCon 2019 in Berlin higryspotiuk asked for a possibility to specify the files that need to be scanned.

This could be added as a new CLI option that specifies a file to read from.
Each line will contain one file that RAT scans with its default configuration (as the current CLI scan does).

Thus a possible run would be:

java -jar rat.jar -scan myfiles.txt

"-scan" will be an exclusive option, thus all other existing
exclusions options will not be allowed, when this option is used.

myfile.txt may contain comments (starting with "#") or empty lines, all else will be treated as files.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #397