is useful for generating a report that can be easily imported into
a spreadsheet or database.
-The user specifies what type of output (long or table) and which
-statistics to display by specifying flags (options) that corresponding
-to the report type and desired infos. If no options are specified,
+The user specifies what type of output (long or table) and which
+statistics to display by specifying flags (options) that corresponding
+to the report type and desired infos. If no options are specified,
B<Capinfos> will report all statistics available in "long" format.
-Options are processed from left to right order with later options
+Options are processed from left to right order with later options
superseding or adding to earlier options.
B<Capinfos> is able to detect and read the same capture files that are
if packets exist "out-of-order", time-wise, in the capture,
B<Capinfos> detects this.
-=item -A
+=item -A
-Generate all infos. By default capinfos will display
-all infos values for each input file, but enabling
-any of the individual display infos options will
-disable the generate all option.
+Generate all infos. By default capinfos will display
+all infos values for each input file, but enabling
+any of the individual display infos options will
+disable the generate all option.
-=item -b
+=item -b
Separate infos with ASCII SPACE (0x20) characters.
-This option is only useful when generating a table
-style report (-T). The various info values will be
-separated (delimited) from one another with a single
-ASCII SPACE character.
-
-NOTE: Since some of the header labels as well as some
-of the value fields contain SPACE characters. This
-option is of limited value unless one of the quoting
+This option is only useful when generating a table
+style report (-T). The various info values will be
+separated (delimited) from one another with a single
+ASCII SPACE character.
+
+NOTE: Since some of the header labels as well as some
+of the value fields contain SPACE characters. This
+option is of limited value unless one of the quoting
options (-q or -Q) is also specified.
-=item -B
+=item -B
-Separate the infos with ASCII TAB characters.
-This option is only useful when generating a table
-style report (-T). The various info values will be
-separated (delimited) from one another with a single
-ASCII TAB character. The TAB character is the default
+Separate the infos with ASCII TAB characters.
+This option is only useful when generating a table
+style report (-T). The various info values will be
+separated (delimited) from one another with a single
+ASCII TAB character. The TAB character is the default
delimiter when -T style report is enabled.
=item -c
Displays the number of packets in the capture file.
-=item -C
+=item -C
Cancel processing any additional files if and
-when capinfos should fail to open an input file.
-By default capinfos will attempt to open each and
-every file name argument.
+when capinfos should fail to open an input file.
+By default capinfos will attempt to open each and
+every file name argument.
-Note: An error message will be written to stderr
+Note: An error message will be written to stderr
whenever capinfos fails to open a file regardless
of whether the -C option is specified or not.
+Upon exit, capinfos will return an error status
+if any errors occurred during processing.
=item -d
Displays the average data rate, in bits/sec
-=item -l
+=item -l
Display the snaplen (if any) for a file.
snaplen (if available) is determined from the capture file header
=item -o
-Displays "True" if packets exist in strict chronological order
-or "False" if one or more packets in the capture exists
+Displays "True" if packets exist in strict chronological order
+or "False" if one or more packets in the capture exists
"out-of-order" time-wise.
-=item -L
+=item -L
-Generate long report. Capinfos can generate two
-different styles of reports. The "long" report is
-the default style of output and is suitable for a
+Generate long report. Capinfos can generate two
+different styles of reports. The "long" report is
+the default style of output and is suitable for a
human to use.
-=item -m
+=item -m
-Separate the infos with comma (,) characters. This option
+Separate the infos with comma (,) characters. This option
is only useful when generating a table style report (-T).
The various info values will be separated (delimited)
from one another with a single comma "," character.
-=item -N
+=item -N
-Do not quote the infos. This option is only useful
-when generating a table style report (-T). Excluding
-any quoting characters around the various values and
-using a TAB delimiter produces a very "clean" table
-report that is easily parsed with CLI tools. By
+Do not quote the infos. This option is only useful
+when generating a table style report (-T). Excluding
+any quoting characters around the various values and
+using a TAB delimiter produces a very "clean" table
+report that is easily parsed with CLI tools. By
default infos are B<NOT> quoted.
-=item -q
+=item -q
-Quote infos with single quotes ('). This option is
+Quote infos with single quotes ('). This option is
only useful when generating a table style report (-T).
When this option is enabled, each value will be
-encapsulated within a pair of single quote (')
-characters. This option (when used with the -m
-option) is useful for generating one type of CSV
+encapsulated within a pair of single quote (')
+characters. This option (when used with the -m
+option) is useful for generating one type of CSV
style file report.
-=item -Q
+=item -Q
-Quote infos with double quotes ("). This option is
+Quote infos with double quotes ("). This option is
only useful when generating a table style report (-T).
When this option is enabled, each value will be
-encapsulated within a pair of double quote (")
-characters. This option (when used with the -m
+encapsulated within a pair of double quote (")
+characters. This option (when used with the -m
option) is useful for generating the most common
type of CSV style file report.
-=item -r
+=item -r
-Do not generate header record. This option is only
+Do not generate header record. This option is only
useful when generating a table style report (-T).
-If this option is specified then B<no> header record will be
+If this option is specified then B<no> header record will be
generated within the table report.
-=item -R
+=item -R
-Generate header record. This option is only useful
+Generate header record. This option is only useful
when generating a table style report (-T). A header
-is generated by default. A header record (if generated)
-is the first line of data reported and includes labels
-for all the columns included within the table report.
+is generated by default. A header record (if generated)
+is the first line of data reported and includes labels
+for all the columns included within the table report.
=item -s
Displays the capture type of the capture file.
-=item -T
+=item -T
Generate a table report. A table report is a text file
-that is suitable for importing into a spreadsheet or
-database. Capinfos can build a tab delimited text file
-(the default) or several variations on Comma-separated
+that is suitable for importing into a spreadsheet or
+database. Capinfos can build a tab delimited text file
+(the default) or several variations on Comma-separated
values (CSV) files.
=item -u
capinfos -h
-To generate a long form report for the capture file
+To generate a long form report for the capture file
mycapture.pcap use:
- capinfos mycapture.pcap
+ capinfos mycapture.pcap
-To generate a TAB delimited table form report for the capture
+To generate a TAB delimited table form report for the capture
file mycapture.pcap use:
- capinfos -T mycapture.pcap
+ capinfos -T mycapture.pcap
-To generate a CSV style table form report for the capture
+To generate a CSV style table form report for the capture
file mycapture.pcap use:
- capinfos -T -m -Q mycapture.pcap
+ capinfos -T -m -Q mycapture.pcap
or
- capinfos -TmQ mycapture.pcap
+ capinfos -TmQ mycapture.pcap
-To generate a TAB delimited table style report with just the
-filenames, capture type, capture encapsulation type and packet
+To generate a TAB delimited table style report with just the
+filenames, capture type, capture encapsulation type and packet
count for all the pcap files in the current directory use:
capinfos -T -t -E -c *.pcap
-or
-
+or
+
capinfos -TtEs *.pcap
-Note: The ability to use of filename globbing characters are
-a feature of *nix style command shells.
+Note: The ability to use of filename globbing characters are
+a feature of *nix style command shells.
-To generate a CSV delimited table style report of all infos
-for all pcap files in the current directory and write it to
+To generate a CSV delimited table style report of all infos
+for all pcap files in the current directory and write it to
a text file called mycaptures.csv use:
capinfos -TmQ *.pcap >mycaptures.csv
-The resulting mycaptures.csv file can be easily imported
+The resulting mycaptures.csv file can be easily imported
into spreadsheet applications.
=head1 SEE ALSO
git.samba.org / obnox / wireshark / wip.git / blobdiff