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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Is the "-Q" flag for Wireshark useful?

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:59:11 -0500


Guy Harris wrote:
If you specify the "-Q" flag, it starts a capture immediately and, when you stop the capture, Wireshark exits.

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Would anybody miss the current "-Q" flag if it went away?

I wouldn't but test/suite-capture.sh would (it uses it for the "capture 10 packets [with the GUI]" test).