Re: nmap --show-progress?

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

On 08/26/2013 12:56 PM, Jacek Wielemborek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently wanted to run an UDP scan on one host and it took pretty
> long. Since I felt too lazy to keep pressing return key to see the
> updates, I wrote a small patch that kept showing the progress
> everytime it could. The patch can be found in the attachment and also
> here:
>
> https://gist.github.com/d33tah/6337489
>
> Obviously, this breaks things. I'm wondering though, would you guys be
> interested in a patch that adds --show-progress switch that has the
> same behavior? I could also make log_write detect if the last line
> began with "\r" and add extra "\n" at the beginning of the next one to
> make it not break output.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Yours,
> Jacek Wielemborek
>
>
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Have you looked at the --stats-every option? It will print a status line 
at regular intervals. http://nmap.org/book/man-output.html#idm254195786048

Dan
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