Re: Boolean Operators for --script (again)

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu> wrote:
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> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:57:06 -0600
> Patrick Donnelly <batrick.donnelly () gmail com> wrote:
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> > Hi Brandon,
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>
> > wrote:
> > > Is it possible with this patch to specify something like
> > > --script="all and not (telnet-brute, whois)"?
> >
> > No it is not. Is this type of functionality strongly desired?
>
> I'm not sure how widespread the desire is but I highly desire it.
>
> Basically I want to run all the NSE scripts except for a handful of
> scripts that I either don't think are useful or extremely slow.  My
> current "solution" is to delete the scripts and then rebuild the
> script.db file every time.  This is particularly frustrating because I
> work out of SVN and I often forget, do a "svn update" and get all my
> delete scripts back.
>
> I've gone as far as to write a shellscript:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> rm 'scripts/snmp-brute.nse'
> rm 'scripts/pop3-brute.nse'
> rm 'scripts/sniffer-detect.nse'
> rm 'scripts/ftp-brute.nse'
> rm 'scripts/upnp-info.nse'
> rm 'scripts/asn-query.nse'
> rm 'scripts/whois.nse'
> rm 'scripts/smb-pwdump.nse'
> rm 'scripts/telnet-brute.nse'
>
> That I run after every svn update and then rebuild the script DB.
>
> I'd much rather be able to do the "all and not (list)" or similar
> syntax.

So the consensus seems to be that we would also like:

script-name(.nse)
prefix-*(.nse)
*-suffix(.nse)

to be used in place of categories. Are there any other requests?

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

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to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant

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