Editing Nmap (section)

==Output==
Four different output formats are offered by Nmap. Everything is saved to a file except the interactive output. Text processing software can be used to modify Nmap output, allowing the user to customize reports.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nmap.org/book/man-output.html |title=Nmap Reference Guide: Output |website=Nmap.org |access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref>

; Interactive: presented and updated real time when a user runs Nmap from the command line. Various options can be entered during the scan to facilitate monitoring.
; [[XML]]: a format that can be further processed by XML tools. It can be converted into a [[HTML]] report using [[XSLT]].
; Grepable: output that is tailored to line-oriented processing tools such as [[grep]], [[sed]], or [[awk]].
; Normal: the output as seen while running Nmap from the command line, but saved to a file.
; [[Script kiddie]]:meant to be an amusing way to format the interactive output [[l33t|replacing]] letters with their visually alike number representations. For example, <code>Interesting ports</code> becomes <code>Int3rest1ng p0rtz</code>. This is known as [[Leet]].