Manual Pages

The following man pages are part of the Wireshark distribution. They are available via the "man" command on UNIX® / POSIX® systems and HTML files via the "Start" menu on Windows systems.

• capinfos - Prints information about capture files
• dftest - Shows display filter byte-code, for debugging dfilter routines.
• dumpcap - Dump network traffic
• editcap - Edit and/or translate the format of capture files
• idl2wrs - CORBA IDL to Wireshark Plugin Generator
• mergecap - Merges two or more capture files into one
• randpkt - Random Packet Generator
• rawshark - Dump and analyze raw libpcap data
• text2pcap - Generate a capture file from an ASCII hexdump of packets
• tshark - Dump and analyze network traffic
• wireshark-filter - Wireshark filter syntax and reference
• wireshark - Interactively dump and analyze network traffic

The following man page is part of the libpcap distribution and hosted here as a convenience for our users.

• pcap-filter - Capture filter syntax