Sure. Something is better than nothing.
--gilbert
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:53:35 -0500, Ian Schorr <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> For a while I'd been meaning to submit a "splitcap" tool to provide
> rich command-line splitting capabilities. I'd planned on extending
> Graeme Hewson's submitted splitcap util (and making it work), but just
> haven't had the time.
>
> I do, however, have an extremely simple splitcap utility available now
> - it simply allows the user to split a file, either into <n> number of
> slices of equal # of packets, or to split a file into (up to, optional)
> <n> number of slices of size <p>. Files are created in user-specified
> location (or local dir by default) in format originalfilename +
> "-splitxxxx".
>
> Usage is as follows:
>
> Usage: splitcap [-h] [-s <# of frames>] [-n <number of slices>]
> <capfile> [destination directory]
> where -s <# of frames> specifies the number of frames per slice
> -h produces this help listing
> -n <number of slices> specifies the maximum number of slices to
> create. If specified without -s, creates the specified
> number of slices, of equal number of packets each. If specified
> with -s, creates up to the specified number of
> slices, of the specified number of packets each.
> <capfile> is the name of the file to split.
> [destination directory] is the location where split files will be
> saved. If no directory is specified, the local directory is
> assumed. Slices are saved with name "<capfile>-splitxxxx", where
> xxxx is the split number.
>
> I constantly find this extremely useful, mostly since it's magnitudes
> faster than repeatedly running editcap since I only have to take one or
> possibly two read passes through the file, and with very large files
> this might mean the difference between an hour or days to split - and
> figure others might find it the same.
>
> Since it doesn't look like the more rich splitcap is coming anytime
> soon, should I go ahead and submit this "simple" splitcap?
>
> Ian
>
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