ANNOUNCEMENT: Live Wireshark University & Allegro Packets online APAC Wireshark Training Session
April 17th, 2024 | 14:30-16:00 SGT (UTC+8) | Online

Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can Wireshark "tail" a capture file?

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 14:44:43 +0800


Jose Graziani wrote:
Can Wireshark tail a file that is continuously been updated by a third party capture device?

No.  It can read from a pipe or named pipe, though (at least on UN*X).