Re: Output w/ date/time variables?

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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Hey Ron,

On 04/08/2010 09:27 AM, Ron wrote:
> If it isn't a difficult change, I 100% agree that this would be useful. I pretty much always do "-oA 
> 2010-04-uniquename". It's pretty trivial doing something like this in Linux: 
> nmap -oA `date +"%Y-%m-%d"`-uniquename

I added this a few years ago because I didn't like using date or manually
entering dates and whatever else when it could be automated in Nmap :)

> But it'd be really cool having that built in. It'd be neat to have other variables, too, like the target range/input 
> filename (-iL xxx), the script run (if there's only one script), etc. That would all fit perfectly into the naming 
> schemes I already use and save me some time (and stop me from accidentally overwriting my first scan when I run a 
> scan against a different subnet :) ). 

When I wrote the patch for the conversions in the file name, requests similar
to this were also made:

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q3/437

While it'd be cool, one issue is that the filename processing would have to be
moved to get this other data.  It's been quite a while so I don't recall if
this would cause big problems or not for initial logging or whathaveyou.

Plus, when is too much data in the name enough?  Should it all be limited to
just a single target, range or script?  And what if you specify a conversion
for the script run (if the option supports only one as you suggested) but
you're actually running more than that?

These are neat ideas, but they add more (probably incompatible with real
strftime and others) conversion symbols and I'm not sure how to handle some
cases for these.

But still, very convenient at times :)

Cheers,
Kris Katterjohn

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