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authorSake Blok <sake@euronet.nl>2009-04-14 16:38:08 +0000
committerSake Blok <sake@euronet.nl>2009-04-14 16:38:08 +0000
commit1aa850f274fb5690ca825495081186667398577c (patch)
tree577f3ad7ec48592dec2e2c98334d81290bfa7328 /doc/tshark.pod
parent9c0555d110af94c03e14f7669be876fce50a8df9 (diff)
Add a note for -z io,stat,<interval>,<filter>,<filter>,... to use "." as
a decimal separator, as the "," will make the command fail. (of course it would be nice to have this fixed, but for now, it at least informs the user how to work around the issue) svn path=/trunk/; revision=28046
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diff --git a/doc/tshark.pod b/doc/tshark.pod
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@@ -562,15 +562,19 @@ MIN(), MAX(), and AVG() using a slightly different filter syntax:
[COUNT|SUM|MIN|MAX|AVG](<field>)<filter>
-One important thing to note here is that the field that the calculation is
-based on MUST also be part of the filter string or else the calculation will
-fail.
+NOTE: One important thing to note here is that the field that the
+calculation is based on MUST also be part of the filter string or
+else the calculation will fail.
So: B<-z io,stat,0.010,AVG(smb.time)> does not work. Use B<-z
io,stat,0.010,AVG(smb.time)smb.time> instead. Also be aware that a field
can exist multiple times inside the same packet and will then be counted
multiple times in those packets.
+NOTE: A second important thing to note is that the system setting for
+decimal separator is set to "."! If it is set to "," the statisctics
+will not be displayed per filter.
+
COUNT(<field>) can be used on any type which has a display filter name.
It will count how many times this particular field is encountered in the