Re: Which language for sorting scan results?

From: Paul Sebastian Ziegler (psz@observed.de)
Date: Sat Apr 22 2006 - 05:32:24 EDT


Hi,

I've done a lot of similar sorting lately.
My suggestions would by Python. It's fast to write and well suited for
sorting-purposes. PLUS I've not come across any sorting task that I
couldn't solve with it so far.

My two cents

MfG
Paul

Am Mittwoch, den 19.04.2006, 14:48 +0000 schrieb pentesticle@yahoo.com:
> Hello list,
>
> I was hoping to get a discussion going regarding sorting the results of the scans being conducted into a more usable format.
>
> I plan to run nmap, retina, and nessus scans and sort them into a single report sorted by IP to determine which vulnerabilities are on each device. Which programming language would be best for performing the compilation? I'm currnetly checking into Perl, but was looking at XML as well.
>
> Any recommendations and dicussion is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.

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