Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Merging capture files

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 23:08:22 -0700
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 08:32:11AM +0300, Sturm Alexis wrote:
> When capturing on multiple files (e.g. 5 files, 5 Mb each), each file
> has to be opened separately afterwards.
> Will it be possible in future releases to merge these files into one
> single file (manually or automatically)?

It's possible in *current* releases if you use the "mergecap"
command-line utility that comes with Ethereal, as long as they all have
the same link-layer type.