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author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2010-05-26 00:19:27 +0000 |
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committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2010-05-26 00:19:27 +0000 |
commit | 7a630c61a1ad5e3cb7f6895256e568ca5a292645 (patch) | |
tree | f797ed91953ee652853c0a02b81557510f7c91b1 /doc/dumpcap.pod | |
parent | 237eef2ae7c9c4bb8b75fac76d79d3c3ad76fc51 (diff) |
Add a -q flag to dumpcap, to squelch its reporting of the packet count,
and add support for SIGINFO, so, if your OS supports SIGINFO, you can
get the packet count by typing ^T.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=32958
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/dumpcap.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/dumpcap.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dumpcap.pod b/doc/dumpcap.pod index 681e6d23d4..292d52adde 100644 --- a/doc/dumpcap.pod +++ b/doc/dumpcap.pod @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ S<[ B<-L> ]> S<[ B<-n> ]> S<[ B<-M> ]> S<[ B<-p> ]> +S<[ B<-q> ]> S<[ B<-s> E<lt>capture snaplenE<gt> ]> S<[ B<-S> ]> S<[ B<-v> ]> @@ -209,6 +210,17 @@ traffic sent to or from the machine on which B<Dumpcap> is running, broadcast traffic, and multicast traffic to addresses received by that machine. +=item -q + +When capturing packets, don't display the continuous count of packets +captured that is normally shown when saving a capture to a file; +instead, just display, at the end of the capture, a count of packets +captured. On systems that support the SIGINFO signal, such as various +BSDs, you can cause the current count to be displayed by typing your +"status" character (typically control-T, although it +might be set to "disabled" by default on at least some BSDs, so you'd +have to explicitly set it to use it). + =item -s E<lt>capture snaplenE<gt> Set the default snapshot length to use when capturing live data. |