Re: mac address on external txt file

[Robin Wood <robin@digi.ninja>]

As long as it isn't going to disappear in a near future release then I'm
happy.

I can fully understand why it isn't changing or growing but that is a good
thing for all the tools and one liners that rely on it.

Robin

On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 at 15:38 Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com> wrote:

> Robin,
>
> It's not going anywhere, it's just not getting new features added. This is
> to ensure that all the old scripts and tools that import it will not break.
> Fixed, delimited formats like that just aren't naturally extensible. XML,
> on the other hand, is easy to add to and Nmap's format even supports
> versioning for times when we really break something (like the
> osclass/osmatch nesting change back in 6.00).
>
> Dan
>
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Robin Wood <robin@digi.ninja> wrote:
>
> > Could I start a campaign to undeprecate it? I use it on every test to
> > easily pull out lists to feed into other tools.
> >
> > XML may be useful to feed into tools specifically developed for it but
> > not for everything else.
> >
> > Robin
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:55 Daniel Miller, <bonsaiviking () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > Matteo,
> > >
> > > Grepable output (-oG) is a deprecated format [1]. It's stable and useful
> > > for some things, but it can't be extended to new features. One feature that
> > > is missing is MAC address output. If you need a machine-readable format
> > > that will always contain output from all of Nmap's features, use the XML
> > > output format [2]. The MAC address is output as the
> > > //host/address[@addrtype="mac"] element.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > [1] https://nmap.org/book/output-formats-grepable-output.html
> > > [2] https://nmap.org/book/output-formats-xml-output.html
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Matteo De Rosa <matteo.derosa () enea it>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > if my mac osx is in 192.168.18.0/24 net and I run on terminal :
> > > >
> > > > nmap -O -F -sS 192.168.15.254
> > > >
> > > > I obtain also *host mac address*.
> > > >
> > > > If I run the same command but direct output to txt file:
> > > >
> > > > nmap -O -F -sS -oG pippo.txt 192.168.15.254
> > > >
> > > > I lose this information.
> > > >
> > > > Is this a bug ?
> > > >
> > > >
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