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Moved --offline up to "Most popular usage options" #1514

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Expand Up @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ For more details, see our [documentation](https://cve-bin-tool.readthedocs.io/en
- [CVE Binary Tool quick start / README](#cve-binary-tool-quick-start--readme)
- [Installing CVE Binary Tool](#installing-cve-binary-tool)
- [Most popular usage options](#most-popular-usage-options)
- [Using the tool offline](#using-the-tool-offline)
- [Finding known vulnerabilities using the binary scanner](#finding-known-vulnerabilities-using-the-binary-scanner)
- [Finding known vulnerabilities in a list of components](#finding-known-vulnerabilities-in-a-list-of-components)
- [Scanning an SBOM file for known vulnerabilities](#scanning-an-sbom-file-for-known-vulnerabilities)
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## Most popular usage options

## Using the tool offline

Specifying the `--offline` option when running a scan ensures that cve-bin-tool doesn't attempt to download the latest database files or to check for a newer version of the tool.
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### Finding known vulnerabilities using the binary scanner

To run the binary scanner on a directory or file:
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You can use `--config` option to provide configuration file for the tool. You can still override options specified in config file with command line arguments. See our sample config files in the
[test/config](https://github.com/intel/cve-bin-tool/blob/main/test/config/)

Specifying the `--offline` option when running a scan ensures that cve-bin-tool doesn't attempt to download the latest database files or to check for a newer version of the tool.

## Using CVE Binary Tool in Github Actions

If you want to integrate cve-bin-tool as a part of your github action pipeline.
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