You probably have used nmap before, but did you know there are plenty of cool options to spice up your scanning sessions? For example, you can specify the –open option to show only open ports, or –reason if you want to see why a port is in the state it is (open/closed/filtered). If you want […]

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Awk comes with some predefined variables, like NF for number of fields or OFS for field separator. If you wanna know more about these ‘man awk’ and search for ‘Built-in Variables’. In this post we are going to talk about using your own variables just like in any other programming language. If you are new […]

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Awk is the ideal tool for most of your output processing/formatting needs. We can use it to carefully select and reformat data fields from stdin or a file and even do stuff like using conditions for what the value must be to print it or not. In fact awk is a programming language in itself, […]

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