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Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine

By : Paulino Calderon
Book Image

Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine

By: Paulino Calderon

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Scan Phases
Script Categories
Nmap Options Mind Map
References
Index

Adding new scripts


NSE scripts are listed in a file named script.db. Having your NSE scripts included in this database allows you to call them directly by name (without the .nse extension). To add new scripts to your script.db database, you simply need to copy your .nse files to the scripts directory, which is usually <NMAP install>/scripts, and run the following command:

#nmap --script-updatedb