Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] How to get text output from tethereal

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

use >test.txt   instead of -w test.txt

-w will write a binary pcap file


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:15:20 -0500, Adam Ripka <aripka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I did not receive a response for my first question on vnc capturing,
> let's see if I have better luck with this one.
> 
> I am trying to capture using tethereal and get a nice text file as
> output. I tried
> 
> tethereal -a duration:30 -f icmp -i (name of device) -n -T text -w
> "test.txt"
> 
> This worked out great except for the text part. I've tried this using
> ethereal i.e. I've captured and then exported to a text file and this
> worked out fine but using tethereal I get unreadable output.
> 
> Can anyone please help me? How can I get a nice little text file from
> the command line?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Adam
> 
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