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In Nmap, which flags does -A include?

-A: Enable OS detection, version detection, script scanning, and traceroute

I was thinking that it covers -O, -sV, -sC, --traceroute, but I'm not 100% sure.

Thank you for your help!

Solution

  • According to https://nmap.org/man/de/man-briefoptions.html these are the descriptions of the flags

    -A: Enables OS detection and Version detection, Script scanning and Traceroute

    vs.

    -O: Enable OS detection
-sV: Probe open ports to determine service/version info
-sC: equivalent to --script=default
--traceroute: Trace hop path to each host

    So they are the same. Was also answered here.