Re: stream output

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 06:00:44PM +0200, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> I am not talking about scripts alone. I'm ok with a script returning a
> string, but I would like to see a stream of discovered nodes, and open
> ports, and detected service, and script results that gets updated as
> nmap makes new discoveries, as opposed to the current output mechanism
> which creates an xml-report when everything has completed. Would this
> be a viable project idea for GSoC 2012?

XML output is flushed after every host group, so you can get a
sort-of-quantized version of what you're describing by using a low
--max-hostgroup. Results aren't immediate but will come more quickly
than the end of the scan.

David Fifield
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