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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Script extcap on macOS

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:31:01 -0700
On Apr 18, 2019, at 5:57 AM, Dario Lombardo <lomato@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 1:56 PM Dario Lombardo <lomato@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Are the extcap expected to be under build/run/extcap on macOS or elsewhere?
> 
> I guess I found the answer myself. tshark -G folders on travis builds give
> 
> /Users/travis/build/crondaemon/wireshark/build/run/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS/extcap

Yes, on macOS, *shark ultimately looks inside the app bundle for plugins/data files/etc.

> Is there a way to get this single path from tshark's command line?

Pipe tshark -G to

	sed -n 's/Extcap path://p'