Learning Penetration Testing with Python

Arguments and options

There are multiple ways in which arguments can be passed to scripts; we will cover more on this in future chapters, as they are applicable to specific scripts. The simplest way to take arguments is to pass them without options. Arguments are the values passed to scripts to give them some dynamic capability.

Options are flags that represent specific calls to the script, stating the arguments that are going to be provided. In other words, if you want to get the help or usage instructions for a script, you typically pass the -h option. If you write a script that accepts both IP addresses and MAC addresses, you could configure it to use different options to signify the data that is about to be presented to it.

Writing scripts to ...