Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Merging 700 capture files

[Ian Schorr <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can simply run:

mergecap [options] -w <outfile> <infile1> <infile2> ... <infile700>

...specifying the names of each of the files you want to merge.  It 
would most likely be easiest to generate this command with a script or 
in some other automated process.  With 700 files you may also run into 
limitations of the length of commands you can generate at the command 
prompt, depending on your platform/shell/etc, though you could break it 
up into multiple merge commands (i.e. merge the first 50 files, then 
merge this new file + the next 49, etc).

Ian

On Oct 23, 2004, at 4:12 PM, Brian Alley wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  
>
> I have approximately 700 5MB files of captures that I would like to 
> merge into one for analysis.  Doing this via the Windows interface is 
> slow and tedious. I’ve tried using Mergecap, however I cannot figure 
> out how to get it to merge numerous files into one in a single 
> operation.  Any suggestions?
>
>  
>
> Regards,
>
>  
>
> Brian
>
> balley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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