Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] text output -- don't want summary line

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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:15:35 +0200
$ tethereal -x -r xxx.cap | grep '^[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]  

On 8/2/05, Kirk Anderson <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been RTFM for several hours and trying all sorts of combinations of
> switches,
> but I staill can't figure out how to do the following:
> 
> Read a standard pcap file in and output a hexdump of the packets WITHOUT
> the packet summary lines.
> 
> If I write out the tex file using "tethereal -r pcap.in -T text -x >
> hex.out" and then go through and
> delete all those summary lines, I am then able to reread that hexdump
> file back in using
> "text2pcap hex.out new_pcap.out".
> 
> I looked through the code and it appears to me that the "print_summary"
> option used in GTK is
> one of the very few that are not controlled using a 'preference option'.
> This print_summary is
> always hard-coded to true or false and can only get deselected via the
> GTK window.
> 
> Is there some other way around this. Bascally I want the ability to move
> back and forth between
> binary pcap files and their hexdump equivalent.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Kirk
> 
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