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You will need a recent copy of Nmap (6.x) to follow the examples of this book. Refer to Chapter 1, Introduction to the Nmap Scripting Engine, for installation instructions.

For Chapter 2, Lua Fundamentals, you might also need a Lua interpreter installed on your system.

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