Re: Bash-completion script for Nmap

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions! I've implemented Patrick and
Vasiliy's suggestions in the latest revision, as well as fixing a couple
things related to --spoof-mac and script categories.

One thing I found was that the Nmap man page is missing the "broadcast"
category in its list of defined categories.

I appreciate any feedback anyone has on this script!

Dan

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>wrote:

> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>
> wrote:
> > Hey list,
> >
> > I posted this a long time ago, but just recently put it out on github.
> > Bash-completion is programmable tab-completion for Bash 3.0 and newer.
> This
> > is my implementation of a completion script for Nmap. Some highlights:
> >
> >   - tab-complete options with both short and long versions
> >   - tab-complete time options with h, m, s, ms
> >   - tab-complete script names and categories (requires perl)
> >   - tab-complete interface names for -e
> >   - tab-complete timing options with names: "paranoid," "insane," etc.
> >
> > https://github.com/bonsaiviking/nmap-completion
>
> Cool! I think by default the script should accept a pre-defined
> NMAPDIR. I decided to install this completion script locally by
> patching it to use NMAPDIR if already set and adding to my .bashrc
> file:
>
> # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
> # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
> # sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
> if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
>    . /etc/bash_completion
> fi
>
> . "$HOME/.bash_completion.nmap"
>
> ^ The last line is the addition. I also pasted the Ubuntu bash
> completion stuff to point out you have to load the custom nmap
> completion script last (so it replaces any default nmap completion
> script that comes with the system).
>
> I think there is a syntax bug:
>
> batrick@neverwinter:~/bonsaiviking-nmap-completion-6d487b5$ bash ./nmap
> ./nmap: line 30: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> ./nmap: line 30: `            +($any_file_opts))'
>
> I fixed it by surrounding +($any_file_opts) in quotes.
>
> Patch attached.
>
> --
> - Patrick Donnelly
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