Scanning a range of ports with Ncat?

Question

I'm aware that Nmap is the obvious choice for this task, however I would still like to know if it's possible to scan a range of ports with Ncat.

I see that I'm able to scan one port, but with a range of ports I get an error.

With traditional Netcat I see that it works, but with Ncat, when I run:

ncat -vzw1 scanme.nmap.org 20-25

I get:

Ncat: Version 7.91 ( https://nmap.org/ncat )
Ncat: Invalid port number "20-25". QUITTING.

Answer 1

That default Ncat is from Nmap, so that range of ports don't work for some reason.

You can then run : /bin/nc.traditional -nv IP 20-25