Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] cli/script driven ethereal operation

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:11:44 -0800
LEGO wrote:

man tethereal, where the T, I (want to) believe, stays for Text.
Actually, I think it stands for "Terminal" or "TTY", but I forget whether Gilbert Ramirez or I named it (if I named it, it was "Terminal" or "TTY"; if Gilbert named it, it might still be "Terminal" or "TTY" The first checkin was 

	r1468 | guy | 2000-01-13 22:46:00 -0800 (Thu, 13 Jan 2000) | 3 lines
Add "tethereal", a tty-oriented derivative of Ethereal that works like Sun's snoop or like tcpdump.). 

In any case, the correct answer is, as you note, the answer to the question


Is there a cli tool that take libcap and generates ascii
output (with the same formatting options available in the ethereal
export gui interface)?


which is "yes, and it's called Tethereal".