This chapter could also be placed in Vulnerability-analysis and Exploitation. Because nmap scripting is a really versatile tool that can do many things. Here we will focus on it's ability to retrieve information that can be useful in the process to **find vulnerabilities**
First locate the nmap scripts. Nmap scripts end in **nse**. For Nmap script engine.
```
locate *.nse
```
The syntax for running a script is:
```
nmap --script scriptname 192.168.1.101
```
To find the "man"-pages, the info about a script we write: