Lucent Technologies Ethereal manual Capinfos Print information about capture files

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C.4. capinfos: Print information about capture files

Included with Ethereal is a small utility called capinfos, which is a command-line utility to print in- formation about binary capture files.

Example C.1. Help information available from capinfos

$ capinfos -h

Usage: capinfos [-t] [-c] [-s] [-d] [-u] [-a] [-e] [-y] [-i] [-z] [-h] <capfile>

where -t display the capture type of <capfile> -c count the number of packets

-s display the size of the file

-d display the total length of all packets in the file (in bytes)

-u display the capture duration (in seconds) -a display the capture start time

-e display the capture end time

-y display average data rate (in bytes) -i display average data rate (in bits) -z display average packet size (in bytes) -h produces this help listing.

If no data flags are given, default is to display all statistics

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