Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] how can i export many capture files to .txt?

[Ian Schorr <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I suppose technically that *is* a script, just not one stored in 
a file.  =)

On Oct 27, 2004, at 4:12 AM, ronnie sahlberg wrote:

> You dont need to write a script for something simple as that.
>
> Men are not afraid of nested loops on the command line, and this will
> not even be a nested loop :-)
>
>
> ls *.cap | while read CAPFILE;do echo "Processing : $CAPFILE" ;
> tethereal -n -r $CAPFILE > `echo $CAPFILE | sed -e "/\.cap/.txt/"`;
> done
>
> should do the job just fine.
>
>
> If the command line above does not work in your shell   it means that
> there is something seriously wrong with your machine, it is broken.
> Please install cygwin on it and it will be less broken.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:21:25 -0400, Ian Schorr 
> <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > By .txt, do you mean a text file containing the kind of output that
> > tethereal generates?
> >
> > Just run tethereal with whatever display options it is that you want,
> > and redirect the output to a file:
> >
> >        tethereal -r infile > textfile.text
> >
> > ...will generate a text file ("textfile.text") containing summaries of
> > each packet in "infile"
> >
> > Now repeat this 300 times.
> >
> > Again, you could write a simple script that would automate this for
> > you.  If you really want one large text file containing the traffic in
> > ALL 300 files (I'm guessing perhaps that's why you asked the seperate
> > 300-file merge question in the other thread), you could also merge all
> > the files and then generate the text file with one command.
> >
> > If you're not familiar with tethereal or the output it generates, 
> > check
> > out the manual for tethereal and play around with its options.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
> >
> > On Oct 26, 2004, at 3:04 PM, nooshin bigdeli wrote:
> >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > i wana know how can i export about 300 capture files to .txt format? 
> > > i
> > > have installed etheral 10.6 on windowsxp.
> > >
> > > thank you!
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