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I want to build something that does a ping scan with nmap periodically to detect hosts showing up and dropping off the network. Is there an easy way to read the nmap output for Ruby? My preference is avoiding 3rd party libraries.
Thanks a lot!
Have learned that simply employing backticks around the command will allow me to capture the output as a variable:
test =
nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24p ‘test:’
puts test.split(“\n”)
Seems to work perfectly. However, as bonsaiviking pointed out, it would be wise to investigate nmap’s XML functionality.