theharvester:tldr:1d891
theharvester: Gather information on a domain using Google.
$ theHarvester --domain ${domain_name} --source google
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This command is using a tool called theHarvester to perform reconnaissance on a specific domain name, using Google as the source of information.
theHarvester: It is a popular open-source tool used for gathering information, conducting reconnaissance, and obtaining email addresses, subdomains, hosts, employee names, DNS data, and more from various public sources.--domain ${domain_name}: This flag specifies the target domain name or organization's web address that you want to gather information about.${domain_name}represents a variable where you should substitute the actual domain name.--source google: This flag specifies the source from which theHarvester should extract information. In this case, it is set to "google," indicating that theHarvester will be using Google as the source of information for the reconnaissance process. This means that it will scrape Google search results for data related to the specified domain, such as email addresses, subdomains, etc.
By executing this command, theHarvester will retrieve data related to the provided domain name from Google search results and present it to the user.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.