Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ethereal interfaces to applications

[Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:24:04AM -0700, GeorgeN wrote:
> 
> Is it possible ethereal to send the filter traffic to
> an external application?

You can use "tethereal | grep" or something like that if you want
the ascii output parsed by an external application. If you want
the binary data to be passed to an external application, then you 
can use "ethereal -w- | <some libpcap-capable application>"

>From the manpage:

-w  Write packet data to savefile or to the standard output if savefile is "-".


I hope this helps,  Cheers,   Sake