Metasploit ... stupid question

[sickness]

I have searched google and the forum but couldn't find an answere to a wierd thing.
When I use msfweb I see all exploits etc. but when I type in terminal "show exploits" I can't see all because the list is too large to be shown in terminal, i tried the "more*" option or "| less" but it doesn't work ... can any1 help me ?

[thorin]

Try the search command within msfconsole.

i.e.:

msf > search SRV
[*] Searching loaded modules for pattern 'SRV'...

Exploits
========

Name Description
---- -----------
windows/brightstor/mediasrv_sunrpc CA BrightStor ArcServe Media Service Stack Overflow
windows/misc/landesk_aolnsrvr LANDesk Management Suite 8.7 Alert Service Buffer Overflow
windows/telnet/gamsoft_telsrv_username GAMSoft TelSrv 1.5 Username Buffer Overflow


Auxiliary
=========

Name Description
---- -----------
dos/windows/smb/ms06_035_mailslot Microsoft SRV.SYS Mailslot Write Corruption
dos/windows/smb/ms06_063_trans Microsoft SRV.SYS Pipe Transaction No Null

msf > search ms08
[*] Searching loaded modules for pattern 'ms08'...

Exploits
========

Name Description
---- -----------
windows/browser/ms08_041_snapshotviewer Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Download
windows/browser/ms08_053_mediaencoder Windows Media Encoder 9 wmex.dll ActiveX Buffer Overflow
windows/smb/ms08_067_netapi Microsoft Server Service Relative Path Stack Corruption


Auxiliary
=========

Name Description
---- -----------
admin/ms/ms08_059_his2006 Microsoft Host Integration Server 2006 Command Execution Vulnerability.

[Valifake]

If you just want to browe the list you could always increase the scroll back buffer in your terminals options.

[sickness]

Works, thanks for the info

[Archangel-Amael]

Works, thanks for the info

http://www.offensive-security.com/blog/
and look for the metasploit unleashed course.
Also take not that only the msfconsole is supported now. The web and gui are really not that good.

[imported_vvpalin]

used to happen to me ... search = awesome

./msfcli > list && cat list | less ... also works and then you can cat list | grep wtfever

i actually do this to make things nice and easy and save time

echo '#!/bin/sh' > msfsearch
echo 'cat /pentest/exploits/framework3/list | grep $1' >> msfsearch
chmod 755 msfsearch && mv msfsearch /usr/bin/

now just do msfsearch wtfever .. add a cron to svn up msf and > list to keep it updated

cheers