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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] editcap time packet selection formatting

From: Christopher Maynard <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:44:17 +0000 (UTC)
kenny <sigafoose@...> writes:

> I am using the following command:
> editcap -A 2013-06-18 11:36:48 -B 2013-06-18 11:40:48 in.pcap out.pcap
> 
> 
> It seems to be formatted correctly however the output of the editcap
command is complaining about the formatting of the -A option.
> 
> "editcap: "2013-06-18" isn't a valid time format"

Because of the space between the date and time, you need to enclose the
timestamp witin quotes so it's read as a single string.  Try:

editcap -A "2013-06-18 11:36:48" -B "2013-06-18 11:40:48" in.pcap out.pcap