Re: Fwd: Nmap Book - Comments

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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Tom Sellers wrote:
> ******************************************************************
> Chapter 13. Nmap Output Formats
>
> Output formats supported by Nmap
> http://nmap.org/book/output-formats-commandline-flags.html
>
> In 4.51 beta Kris added support for adding symbolic placeholders
> in names so that dates and times could be dynamically added to
> output file names.
>
> Here is the change log entry:
>
> 4.51BETA [2007-12-21]
>
> ...
>
> o Nmap's output options (-oA, -oX, etc.) now support strftime()-like
>    conversions in the filename.  %H, %M, %S, %m, %d, %y, and %Y are
>    all the same as in strftime().  %T is the same as %H%M%S, %R is the
>    same as %H%M, and %D is the same as %m%d%y.  A % followed by any
>    other character just yields that character (%% yields a %).  This
>    means that "-oX 'scan-%T-%D.xml'" uses an XML file in the form of
>    "scan-144840-121307.xml". [Kris
>
> This change is not included in Nmap's usage output or in any of the
> reference documentation that I am aware of.  If this is intended to
> be a supported feature, would your book be a good time to include
> documentation?  If so, the man section of the book would probably need
> to include this information as well.

This information is included in the man page/reference guide[1]:

"All of these arguments support strftime()-like conversions in the filename.
%H, %M, %S, %m, %d, %y, and %Y are all exactly the same as in strftime(). %T
is the same as %H%M%S, %R is the same as %H%M, and %D is the same as %m%d%y. A
% followed by any other character just yields that character (%% gives you a
percent symbol). So -oX 'scan-%T-%D.xml' will use an XML file in the form of
scan-144840-121307.xml."

I don't recall doing any book work when I made this addition, so I guess it
just fell through the cracks.

> Thanks,
>
> Tom

Thanks,
Kris Katterjohn

[1] http://nmap.org/book/src/html/man-output.html

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