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author | Chuck Craft <bubbasnmp@gmail.com> | 2021-10-12 11:26:31 -0500 |
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committer | Wireshark GitLab Utility <gerald+gitlab-utility@wireshark.org> | 2021-10-12 20:35:15 +0000 |
commit | 1998e7f34b1c1f0e28e491416888012f9d868b1c (patch) | |
tree | b98d09f62548cdecaf61d4a30f13913aa881334f /doc | |
parent | fd076e6ca86d3c2e936f6de8c10eddd9a9d32fc6 (diff) |
capinfos: man page typos; add longopts to Usage:
The verbiage for first/last packets and start/end times seem
to not be consistent. Changing will also require a change to
Capture File Statistics in the Wireshark Gui. Future MR.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/capinfos.adoc | 32 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/doc/capinfos.adoc b/doc/capinfos.adoc index 57bfde94fc..1b11e1ef89 100644 --- a/doc/capinfos.adoc +++ b/doc/capinfos.adoc @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ if packets exist "out-of-order", time-wise, in the capture, -A:: + -- -Generate all infos. By default capinfos will display +Generate all infos. By default *Capinfos* will display all infos values for each input file, but enabling any of the individual display infos options will disable the generate all option. @@ -137,16 +137,16 @@ Displays the number of packets in the capture file. + -- Cancel processing any additional files if and -when capinfos fails to open an input file +when *Capinfos* fails to open an input file or gets an error reading an input file. -By default capinfos will continue processing files +By default *Capinfos* will continue processing files even if it gets an error opening or reading a file. Note: An error message will be written to stderr -whenever capinfos fails to open a file or gets +whenever *Capinfos* fails to open a file or gets an error reading from a file regardless whether the -C option is specified or not. -Upon exit, capinfos will return an error status +Upon exit, *Capinfos* will return an error status if any errors occurred during processing. -- @@ -165,7 +165,8 @@ were captured with a snaplen or other slicing option), -D:: + -- -Displays a count of the number of decryption secrets in the file. +Displays a count of the number of decryption secrets in the file. This information +is not available in table format. -- -e:: @@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ Displays the per-file encapsulation of the capture file. Displays additional capture file information. -- --h:: +-h|--help:: + -- Prints the help listing and exits. @@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ section header block. Use this option to suppress printing capture comments. By default capture comments are enabled. Capture comments are relatively freeform and might contain embedded new-line characters and/or other delimiting characters -making it harder for a human or machine to easily parse the capinfos output. +making it harder for a human or machine to easily parse the *Capinfos* output. Excluding capture comments can aid in post-processing of output. -- @@ -244,7 +245,7 @@ and by looking for truncated records in the capture file. -L:: + -- -Generate long report. Capinfos can generate two +Generate long report. *Capinfos* can generate two different styles of reports. The "long" report is the default style of output and is suitable for a human to use. @@ -263,7 +264,7 @@ from one another with a single comma "," character. + -- Print raw (machine readable) values in long reports. -By default capinfos prints numeric values with human-readable SI +By default *Capinfos* prints numeric values with human-readable SI suffixes, and shows human-readable file type and encapsulation. Table reports (-T) always print raw values. -- @@ -272,7 +273,8 @@ Table reports (-T) always print raw values. + -- Displays a count of the number of resolved IPv4 addresses and a count of -the number of resolved IPv6 addresses in the file. +the number of resolved IPv6 addresses in the file. This information +is not available in table format. -- -N:: @@ -362,7 +364,7 @@ Displays the capture type of the capture file. -- Generate a table report. A table report is a text file that is suitable for importing into a spreadsheet or -database. Capinfos can build a tab delimited text file +database. *Capinfos* can build a tab delimited text file (the default) or several variations on Comma-separated values (CSV) files. -- @@ -375,7 +377,7 @@ difference in time between the earliest packet seen and latest packet seen. -- --v:: +-v|--version:: + -- Displays the tool's version and exits. @@ -401,7 +403,7 @@ Displays the average packet size, in bytes == EXAMPLES -To see a description of the capinfos options use: +To see a description of the options use: capinfos -h @@ -432,7 +434,7 @@ count for all the pcap files in the current directory use: or - capinfos -TtEs *.pcap + capinfos -TtEc *.pcap Note: The ability to use of filename globbing characters are a feature of *nix style command shells. |