Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Shell script to use tshark

From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:26:25 +0200
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 05:36:19PM -0300, Rafael Morita wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am making a script for set up a filter, and then it uses tshark to filter
> the capture.
> 
> Here is an example of the input and what it have to do:
> 
> ./tshark.sh SIP.cap674.gz output.cap
> [email protected] 1751131597
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> 
> and the output was to be:
> 
> /usr/bin/tshark -r SIP.cap674.gz -w output.cap -R 'rtp or sip.Call-ID
> contains "[email protected]" or sip.Call-ID
> contains "1751131597" or sip.Call-ID contains "
> [email protected]" or sip.Call-ID contains "
> [email protected]"'
> 
> 
> 
> if I just print that output, copy and paste to execute in terminal, it
> works. but if I make it to run in the script, the tshark prints this error:
> 
> tshark: Read filters were specified both with "-R" and with additional
> command-line arguments

Putting the qoutes and ticks right can be tricky...

> Do you know if there is any limitations to use tshark in a script (Bash)?

Well, of course there are limitations, but this is not one of them ;-)

> Here is the code of the script:

Change:

> filter="'rtp"

to 

filter="rtp"

... and remove:

> filter=$filter'

Then use:

tshark -r $input -w $output -R "$filter"

to execute your filter and then I think it should work :-)

Cheers,
    Sake