[LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>]

man tethereal, where the T, I (want to) believe, stays for Text.

Luis

On 3/11/06, bergenpeak@xxxxxxxxxxx <bergenpeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been running ethereal manually (open the gui, select the interface,
> capture some packets, export contents to an ascii file, run scripts against
> the contents of the file).  I'd like to automate all of this.
>
> Specifically, I'd like to run ethereal on a headless linux device, collect
> and packets and then either write the packets in ascii to a file or write
> to a file in native format and then be able to non-real-time but via a
> script convert the libcap file contents to ascii.
>
> Is the above possible?   What's the mechanism to get ethereal to run
> without a display?  Is there a cli tool that take libcap and generates ascii
> output (with the same formatting options available in the ethereal
> export gui interface)?
>
> I expect (hope) so.  Didn't see anything which clearly indicated how to
> do this in the man page.
>
> Thanks
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