Running NSE scripts
NSE scripts are very powerful and have become one of Nmap's main strengths, performing tasks from advanced version detection to vulnerability exploitation.
The following recipe describes how to run NSE scripts, and the different options available for this engine.
How to do it...
To include the title of the index document of a web server in your scan results, open your terminal and type the following command:
$ nmap -sV --script http-title scanme.nmap.org
How it works...
The argument --script sets which NSE scripts should be run with the scan. In this case, when the service scan detects the web server, a parallel thread is initialized ...
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