Re: Nmap & Bash Auto-Completion (was: Am I Missing Something?)

[Jay Fink <jay.fink () gmail com>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:24 AM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:10:32PM -0500, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Ron <ron () skullsecurity net> wrote:
> > > A couple ideas, though:
> > > - Have bash autocomplete for script names (not sure how that works, but
> >
> > This is a great idea I think. How hard would it be to do this for all
> > of Nmap's options in addition to script names?
>
> The documentation for Bash completion is here:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Programmable-Completion.html
> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Programmable-Completion-Builtins.html
>
> Using chgrp from Debian's /etc/bash_completion as an example, I made a
> completion example that knows some option names and how to look up
> scripts.
>
> _nmap()
> {
>        local cur prev
>
>        COMPREPLY=()
>        cur=$(COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD])
>        prev=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1])
>
>        if [[ "$cur" == -* ]]; then
>                COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W '--script --script-args \
>                --script-updatedb --traceroute \
>                -sS -sP -sA -sM -sW -sV -O' -- $cur) )
>                return 0
>        fi
>
>        if [ "$prev" == "--script" ]; then
>                COMPREPLY=( $(cd /usr/share/nmap/scripts && compgen -f -- $cur) )
>                return 0
>        fi
>
>        return 0
> }
> complete -F _nmap nmap
>
> Save the above to a file and then source it like this:
>        . ./nmap_comp
>
> For example,
> $ nmap -<tab><tab>
> -O                 --script-args      -sP                -sW
> -sA                --script-updatedb  -sS                --traceroute
> --script           -sM                -sV
> $ nmap --<tab><tab>
> --script           --script-args      --script-updatedb  --traceroute
> $ nmap --script ssh<tab><tab>
> ssh-hostkey.nse  sshv1.nse
>
> It would be neat if someone takes this idea further.

That is pretty slick. I definitely am trying this tonite :)
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