[Winpcap-users] Run etheral from command lines

Guy Harris guy at alum.mit.edu
Tue Aug 9 17:40:23 GMT 2005


Joao Rosa wrote:

> I need to do a file script that run ethereal from command line.

Then you should probably be asking the ethereal-users at ethereal.com 
mailing list.

> Please 
> tell me the parameter to put in ethereal to decode the protocol.
> 
> For example: ethereal file.in file.out (what parameter I need to put? 
> For ethereal translate file.out  to a text file with protocol decoded).

I.e., you want to read a capture file, and write out a text file with 
all protocols decoded?

If so, then you don't want to run Ethereal, you want to run Tethereal:

	tethereal -r file.in -V > file.out


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