Re: --top not recognized as a shorthand for --top-ports

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Kirils,

Thanks for the suggestion. Currently, a lot if not all of our long option
names have underscore-instead-of-hyphen synonyms. I'm not sure about the
history of this and what it might affect if they were all changed. I hope
someone (Fyodor?) can chime in with more info.

Dan

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Kirils Solovjovs <
kirils.solovjovs () kirils com> wrote:

> Because nmap supports two ways to spell "top ports", shorthand --top is
> not working.
> I suggest deprecating top_ports as other parameters use dash instead of
> underscore.
>
> Nmap version 7.30 ( https://nmap.org )
>
> Command:
> nmap --top
>
>
> Current result:
> nmap: option '--top' is ambiguous; possibilities: '--top-ports'
> '--top_ports'
> See the output of nmap -h for a summary of options.
>
>
> Expected result:
> nmap: option '--top-ports' requires an argument
>
>
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