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

[Adam Ripka <aripka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks a lot, I'll try that, thanks for the quick response too.

ronnie sahlberg wrote:

> 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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