On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 01:27:33PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
>
> > "Wesley" == Wesley Shields writes:
> >> Since pcap files have no end of file marker, and each file
> >> has a header on it, do you look at the beginning of each packet, and
> see
> >> if there is a pcap magic number?
>
> Wesley> I'm not sure I'm parsing this right but...
>
> Wesley> I am using pcap_open_offline() on each file, which should be
> validating
> Wesley> that I'm operating on a pcap file. I also check to ensure
> Wesley> that the DLT
>
> Ah, sorry, you wrote:
> find /pcaps -type f | tcpdump -V - -w out.pcap
>
> so you are reading a list of files rather than concatenating them.
> I had read:
>
> find /pcaps -type f | xargs cat | tcpdump -V - -w out.pcap
>
> so you'd have a byte stream with multiple pcap headers inline.
> Do we support multipe -r flags... no... maybe that's a better fix?
I don't recall that being supported. I'm not sure what it would take to
do that either. My approach seemed easy enough to implement.
-- WXS
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