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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition
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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition

by Paulino Calderon
May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
21h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

To save the scan results to a file in a normal output format, add the option -oN <filename>. This option only affects the output format and can be combined with any port or host scanning technique (and of course, any other Nmap option):

$ nmap -oN <output file> <target>

After the scan is complete, the output should be saved now in the specified file:

$ nmap -oN scanme.txt scanme.nmap.org $ cat scanme.txt    # Nmap 7.40SVN scan initiated Thu Dec 29 13:25:54 2016 as: nmap -oN        - scanme.nmap.org    Nmap scan report for scanme.nmap.org (45.33.32.156)    Host is up (0.16s latency).    Other addresses for scanme.nmap.org (not scanned):       2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe18:bb2f    Not shown: 995 closed ports    PORT      STATE    SERVICE  22/tcp open ssh  ...
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ISBN: 9781786467454