Post-Scan Options

Post-Scan options activate their respective post-scan plugins which execute the task.

Post-Scan Options

--mark-source

Set the “is_source” flag to true for directories that contain over 90% of source files as direct children.

Note

The --mark-source option has no effect unless the --info scan is requested.

--only-findings
	Only return files or directories with findings for the requested scans. Files and directories without findings are omitted (not considering basic file information as findings).

--mark-source Plugin

The mark-source option marks the “is_source” attribute of a directory to be “True”, if more than 90% of the files under that directory is source files, i.e. their “is_source” attribute is “True”.

When the following command is executed to scan the samples directory with this option enabled,

./scancode -clpieu -f json-pp samples samples.json --mark-source

Then, the following directories are marked as “Source”, i.e. their “is_source” attribute is changed from “false” to “True”.

• samples/JGroups/src
• samples/zlib/iostream2
• samples/zlib/gcc_gvmat64
• samples/zlib/ada
• samples/zlib/infback9

--only-findings Plugin

This option removes from the scan results, the files where nothing significant has been detected, like files which doesn’t contain any licences, copyrights, emails or urls(if requested in the scan options), and isn’t a package.

Note

This also changes in the result displayed, the number of files scanned.

For example, scanning the sample files without this option, displays in it’s report information of 43 files. But after enabling this option, the result shows information for only 31 files.