https://github.com/mstone/vscan

a text scanning suite
https://github.com/mstone/vscan

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a text scanning suite

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mstone/vscan
• Owner: mstone
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2011-02-15T23:56:18.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-04-20T16:15:29.000Z (about 15 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-06T15:04:51.255Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 554 KB
• Stars: 16
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
% VSCAN README

% Michael Stone 

% February 1, 2011

`vscan` is a toolkit for making fast but crude measurements of the prevalence

of named textual features in algorithmically selected samples of large corpora.

It's useful in the same places as `find` and `grep` but it's designed to yield

more useful reports, e.g., by letting you name the patterns that you're

searching for and by storing the resulting matches in a SQLite database for

later correlation with upload or modification logs.

So far, we've used it, with some success, for

  a) hunting for JavaScript malware in FTP-accessible file systems and for

  b) hunting for call-sites of deprecated cryptographic primitives in large

     collections of source code.

To install `vscan`, please follow the instructions in the `INSTALL` file

located alongside this `README` or check to see whether `vscan` is available

through your favorite package manager.

For information on how to use `vscan`, please see the overview and command-

specific documentation in the `docs/` subdirectory of the source code. (Also,

take a look at the `config.lua` file alongisde this `README` -- it's got some

fun examples of nasty JavaScript patterns!)

Finally, please write if you have trouble getting `vscan` to work or if you've

done cool things with `vscan` that we might want to merge -- we'd love to hear

from you!