Re: Terser output of ping scan required

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Andrew,

This won't help with existing scripts, but the official answer to 
questions like this is that scripts and other programs that consume Nmap 
output should be written to use either the XML (-oX, preferred) output 
or the Grepable (-oG, deprecated) output. The Grepable output has not 
changed since 4.11 and earlier; and though it is incomplete with regard 
to NSE script output, it is sufficient for ping scans. The XML output 
has changed slightly, but not in ways that should break a proper XML parser.

Dan

On 09/17/2011 12:37 AM, Huo Zhigang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the good old days, I am happy with the terse output of nmap-4.11:
> > Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2011-09-07
> 12:59 GMT
> Host m03 (10.10.112.103) appears to be up.
> Host m08 (10.10.112.108) appears to be up.
> Host m11 (10.10.112.111) appears to be up.
> <snip>
> Host m27 (10.10.112.127) appears to be up.
> Nmap finished: 32 IP addresses (xx hosts up) scanned in 0.320 seconds
>
> Unfortunately, using the new nmap-5.51:
> > Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-09-17 13:15 CST
> Nmap scan report for 10.10.112.99
> Host is up (0.00064s latency).
> Nmap scan report for m03 (10.10.112.103)
> Host is up (0.00059s latency).
> Nmap scan report for m08 (10.10.112.108)
> Host is up (0.0012s latency).
> Nmap scan report for m11 (10.10.112.111)
> Host is up (0.00096s latency).
> <snip>
> Nmap scan report for m27 (10.10.112.127)
> Host is up (0.0011s latency).
> Nmap done: 32 IP addresses (xx hosts up) scanned in 1.31 seconds
>
> It is true I can filter redundant info out and do not make a fuss,
> but it really caused me some frustrations because several scripts
> were built on top of nmap.
>
> nmap has the option to increase the output verbosity (-v,-vv,-vvv),
> why not give an option to increase the terseness.
>
>
> andrew
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list
> http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
> Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/

_______________________________________________
Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list
http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/