Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] command line question

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:14:12 -0700 (PDT)
Hauptmann Bob-P18081 said:
> I would like to execute ethereal from a command line, specify a duration
> to execute, interface to capture from (possibly a filter) and write the
> results (with summary) to a file and NOT have a window pop-up.
>
> Can this be done?

Not with Ethereal - it's a GUI application by design.

However, depending on what you mean by "the results (with summary)", it
might be possible to do at least some of this with Tethereal, which *was*
designed to be a non-interactive command-line application.