Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] merging many files using mergecap

[Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boonie wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Meier" <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Community support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] merging many files using mergecap
>
>
> > Bill Meier wrote:
> >
> > I've committed the change in SVN #31943. It builds AOK in my environment
> > and presumably will do so in the Buildbot environment.
>
>
> I've tested "wireshark-win32-1.3.4-SVN-31944.exe" which works like expected.
>
> Issue is fixed. No point in sending in a bug report. Right?
>
> Great job. Thanks.
>
> The batch file is not working as expected. I'll paste te result below.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave
>
>
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> c:\download>merge
>
> c:\download>setlocal
>
> c:\download>set foo=
>
> c:\download>for %f in (*.pcap) do set foo=!foo! %f
>
> c:\download>set foo=!foo! test_00001_20100222194750.pcap
>
> c:\download>set foo=!foo! test_00002_20100222194751.pcap
>
> c:\download>set foo=!foo! test_00003_20100222194751.pcap
>
> c:\download>set foo=!foo! test_00004_20100222194752.pcap
>
> c:\download>set foo=!foo! test_00005_20100222194753.pcap
>
> c:\download>"c:\Program Files\Wireshark\mergecap.exe" -w all.pcap !foo! 
> test_00005_20100222194753.pc
> mergecap: Can't open !foo!: No such file or directory
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Did you do the bit about invoking cmd with "delayed expansion" enabled
(ie: cmd /v:on) ??