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nmap Cheat Sheet
Print-ready cheat sheet for nmap, organized for fast lookup, study, and desk-side use
Sample
What's in this cheat sheet
- Basic Scans
- Port Scanning
- Host Discovery
- Service Detection
- OS Detection
- Scripts (NSE)
- Output Formats
- Timing & Performance
- Firewall Evasion
- Common Patterns
Scan Targets
nmap 192.168.1.1 # single host
nmap 192.168.1.0/24 # entire subnet
nmap 192.168.1.1-50 # IP range
nmap -iL targets.txt # hosts from file
Target Specification
192.168.1.1 | Single IP address |
192.168.1.0/24 | CIDR notation (256 hosts) |
192.168.1.1-254 | IP range |
example.com | Hostname (resolved to IP) |
-iL file.txt | Read targets from file |
--exclude 192.168.1.1 | Exclude specific hosts |
--excludefile skip.txt | Exclude hosts from file |
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