Grep - Match and Grep - Extract
Grep is the simplest and most used command-line tool on Linux/Unix to match and extract data based on patterns, which can be simple string comparisons or regular expressions.
We can use Grep - Match to quickly identify requests/responses that we get in the Intruder results to filter these results based on certain conditions. Matches are shown in a new column, which we can sort to quickly make sense of the output.
The default values provided to us are good to use, and we can add more based on our requirement. Have a look at the following screenshot:
We can add more keywords, set the match type to be simple strings or regular expression patterns, and load more from our list of keywords. It is great for analysis of output from the Intruder tool!
Grep - Extract allows us to extract data using the response extraction rules for the requests made in Intruder. As in Grep - Match, a new column will list extracted data in a new column. Response extraction is useful in...
