Take input files to scan from a config file.

[gerhardj]

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]

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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[gerhardj]

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]

How about an input config file that specifies the targets?

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