I can't find any user guide on all the various command line options for using with Clamwin, clamscan, etc.

Is there one list for all the programs?

try running these:

clamscan.exe --help
freshclam.exe --help

Clamwin is a gui and does not have command line options

Yes I did realise that they are command line program and how to read their options.

But some form of human text help on them with some examples would have been nice on the web?

I've just been told that clamwin has a --mode=update commandline option...

Is this right?

When I use it, it forces a database update. But then the main GUI doesn't run afterwards.
So close....

well, the command line switches in clamwin.exe are for internal use and we needed it to behave this way. You can use a batch fille
clamwin.exe --mode=update
clamwin.exe --mode-scanner --path="c:\folder"

Thanks for getting back to me.

Hmm, I'll think about that.

Any other non-existing command line options it doesn't have?

Like I indicated, these don't seem to be documented.

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Like I indicated, these don't seem to be documented.[/quote]

Like I replied before - these are internal and were not intended nor designed for general use.

Hmm having useful command line options and then stating you don't want people to use them is a bit silly.

I see now that there are other people using them regardless.

Why not simply document them and stop trying to hide them by not mentioning them?

No one is hiding the command line switches - we are an open source project. However the switches in clamwin.exe were designed to be used internally for quite specific purposes, therefore you should use clamscan and feshclam as command line utilities which provide full command line support, not clamwin.exe. That's all.

In clamscan I have the ability of indicating the database location via "--database". How can one do the same via
clamwin.exe --mode=scanner? Same question for "--recursive".

Thanks!

You cannot.
ClamWin is not designed to be used from the command line, you would need to use ClamScan in stead.