If you hate scripts that just seem to stop working because of a lack of information in the output, then you need to include verbosity messages in your scripts. The purpose of these messages is to inform users of what is going on behind the scenes while your script does its work. Verbosity messages should be clear and concise while explaining the progress of the current task.

The stdnse library offers the verbose() function to print these verbose messages:

For example, to print a verbose message only when the verbosity level is higher than 2, we use the following code:

      local stdnse = require "stdnse"
      …
     for i,v in pairs(arr) do
        stdnse.verbose(2, "ID %d - %s", i, v)
     end

If you need to obtain the verbosity...