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/usr/bin/yr

A rewrite of YARA in Rust.

From yara-x 1.23.0-r0 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running yr --help (exit 0). permalink

YARA-X 1.23.0, the pattern matching swiss army knife.

Victor M. Alvarez <vmalvarez@virustotal.com>

Usage:
  yr [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  scan        Scan a file or directory
  compile     Compile rules to binary form
  dump        Show the data produced by YARA modules for a file
  fmt         Format YARA source files
  fix         Utilities for fixing source code
  completion  Output shell completion code for the specified shell
  deps        Show rule dependencies
  help        Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -C, --config <CONFIG_FILE>
          Config file for YARA-X

          Specifies a config file which controls the behavior of YARA-X. If config file is not
          specified, ${HOME}/.yara-x.toml is used. If it does not exist the default options are
          applied.

          See https://virustotal.github.io/yara-x/docs/cli/config-file/ for supported options.

  -h, --help
          Print help (see a summary with '-h')

  -V, --version
          Print version
Options (3)
OptionDescriptionSource
-C, --config CONFIG_FILEConfig file for YARA-Xhelp
-h, --helpPrint help (see a summary with '-h')help
-V, --versionPrint versionhelp

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.