Re: Script suggestions

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Duarte Silva
<duarte.silva () serializing me> wrote:
> On Monday 28 November 2011 00:52:35 David Fifield wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:34:44PM +0000, Duarte Silva wrote:
> > > The script option may be specified without arguments. So if you could
> > > take it as an example I guees it would make your live easier ;)
> >
> > --script requires an argument. You may be thinking of -sC (which is
> > really the short option -s taking the argument "C" in disguise).
> >
> > It's possible to have options that take optional arguments, but I don't
> > think we should because it works in a suprising way. It requires you to
> > use '=' instead of a space after the option.
>
> Then, it seems the two options, -scS (no arguments) and --script-suggest (same
> arguments as --script) are viable options. As I come to think about it, this
> way is even better.

Maybe what we really need is an option which allows the user to pass
directives to NSE. For example:

--script-directive suggest,directive2,directive3

possibly in some sort of option=argument format. I could see
--script-updatedb being replaced with a directive.

-- 
- Patrick Donnelly
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