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

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:32:00PM -0500, Jay Fink wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:25 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:59:47PM -0600, Daniel Miller wrote:
> > > Here's a bash-completion script for nmap that covers all the options
> > > in the 5.00 release. There are some preference things that could be
> > > changed, such as which options to tab-complete by default. I'm sure
> > > there's a better way to do the comma-separated list of script
> > > categories and names, but this works. Hope this helps!
> >
> > Daniel, I want to thank you for putting it together. I've heard a
> > request for a completion setup more than once. I'm sorry there hasn't
> > been much response to this, and I don't want you to get discouraged as a
> > contributor.
> >
> > Has anyone tried this out and like it? If it's working, perhaps we can
> > include it in the Nmap source or encourage distributors to package it.
>
> Do you have the instructions or link to the original file?
>
> I messed around a little bit with something David posted a few weeks
> ago then forgot about it.

Here's the message with the file. Unfortunately it got word-wrapped so I
attached a fixed version.

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q4/514

To use it, just run (note leading dot):

. ./nmap-completion.sh

I had to add some backslashes before |, (, and ) in the patterns

-P+(S|Y|A|U|O)
+($any_file_opts)
+($any_time_opts)

I'm not sure if that changes the meaning. I am able to run this on
Debian. From inspection, it looks like it may use some Debian-specific
shell functions, so some work might be needed on other platforms.

David Fifield

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