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author | Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@web.de> | 2007-09-25 21:38:54 +0000 |
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committer | Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@web.de> | 2007-09-25 21:38:54 +0000 |
commit | 35eb028ca4e35a6ab130ade148a687ad2ceeadb2 (patch) | |
tree | 599803588e17050b88ce12148b98a91afeb65352 /doc | |
parent | 67782546bb63fb42f5bd042afa2fa0914475f8c9 (diff) |
clarify tshark -B (file format) option
svn path=/trunk/; revision=22968
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/tshark.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tshark.pod b/doc/tshark.pod index c650e7147e..acbbf2d2ad 100644 --- a/doc/tshark.pod +++ b/doc/tshark.pod @@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ When writing packets to a file, B<TShark>, by default, writes the file in B<libpcap> format, and writes all of the packets it sees to the output file. The B<-F> option can be used to specify the format in which to write the file. This list of available file formats is displayed by -the B<-h> flag. +the B<-F> flag without a value. However, you can't specify a file format +for a live capture. Read filters in B<TShark>, which allow you to select which packets are to be decoded or written to a file, are very powerful; more fields @@ -252,7 +253,8 @@ Set the capture filter expression. Set the file format of the output capture file written using the B<-w> option. The output written with the B<-w> option is raw packet data, not -text, so there is no B<-F> option to request text output. +text, so there is no B<-F> option to request text output. The option B<-F> +without a value will list the available formats. =item -h |