This chapter includes references to your Nmap data directory, so it is important that you locate it before continuing. The following table shows some of the default installation paths where you can find Nmap:

The NSE data directory is located at nselib/data inside your Nmap installation path.

The --datadir argument can be used to manually select the data directory to be used during a scan, like this:

$nmap --datadir /usr/local/nmap-data/ -sC -sV <target>