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Re: nmap-2.54b27+V-2.4
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:05:12 -0700
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:28:13AM -0500, Jay Freeman (saurik) wrote:
In fact, the ,'s are quite common. The reason I don't support greppable output is because I _can't_ until someone (Fyodor?) defines what the rules for escaping such characters is and people start to update their readers to support the escaped output.
Such a grammar definition probably won't be forthcoming from me, although you are welcome to choose and document your own encoding scheme for Nmap+V greppable output. I consider the format deprecated in favor of the XML output flavor. I don't have any plans to remove -oG , but I may not update it to support new Nmap features. Some day I might have some sort of translation engine/scripts that will take the XML output and produce various other forms (greppable, HTML, etc). But right now all the output formats are generated inside various Nmap functions (mostly in output.c), and supporting too many output formats can really get ugly. Like Saurik, I tend to prefer the XML format for now. Cheers, -F
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