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authorGerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>2019-07-14 09:51:40 -0700
committerAnders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>2019-07-16 06:43:09 +0000
commit8147af211d2eadbc32b3039baabc2f6b74308217 (patch)
tree544398d5f49ddc7ac12123e6e570251f96aa2cb0 /doc
parent2377dff96cd4442f7ff666ec9eb4d2425395ee86 (diff)
Editcap: Allow floating point split intervals.
Update the `-i` option to allow floating point values as suggested at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57004719/split-wireshark-to-miliseconds Change-Id: I24028d409bc441ed3b45ac2179f7c42b2bc424bc Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/33938 Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> Petri-Dish: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
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@@ -178,9 +178,10 @@ Prints the version and options and exits.
=item -i E<lt>seconds per fileE<gt>
-Splits the packet output to different files based on uniform time intervals
-using a maximum interval of <seconds per file> each. Each output file will
-be created with a suffix -nnnnn, starting with 00000. If packets for the specified
+Splits the packet output to different files based on uniform time
+intervals using a maximum interval of <seconds per file> each. Floating
+point values (e.g. 0.5) are allowed. Each output file will be created
+with a suffix -nnnnn, starting with 00000. If packets for the specified
time interval are written to the output file, the next output file is
opened. The default is to use a single output file.