Pedro Pérez Pérez said:
> My problem is that i need this text files using tethereal or ethereal in
> command mode. I mean, i need to know what option i can put in the command
> line to execute ethereal getting in the output the same text file that i
> get using graphical interface exporting the output file as plain text with
> "all-collapsed" option.
Unfortunately, there isn't one.
>From the command line, all you can tell Ethereal to do is
1) start a capture
or
2) read a capture file.
You can't tell it to perform arbitrary GUI actions.
You can run a command to get Tethereal to read a capture file and write
out the dissection as text, but you can't get it to do that in
"all-collapsed" mode - there's no command line option for that.
> The meaning of this question is that i want to develop an application that
> sniff the network traffic with ethereal and reads this frames using output
> text files because is easier than using dmp files.
If you only want the top-level information about the protocols in the
packet, plus whatever information particular dissectors put in the
top-level items, try running Tethereal with "-V" and then filtering out
all lines that begin with a space. If you have "grep" (i.e., you're not
stuck on Windows, or you have Cygwin or something else that gives you
"grep" on Windows), try
tethereal -V -r {file name} | grep -v '^ '
