NAME¶
reordercap - Reorder input file by timestamp into output file
SYNOPSIS¶
reordercap [
-n ] [
-v ] <
infile> <
outfile>
DESCRIPTION¶
Reordercap is a program that reads an input capture file and rewrites the
frames to an output capture file, but with the frames sorted by increasing
timestamp.
This functionality may be useful when capture files have been created by
combining frames from more than one well-synchronised source, but the frames
have not been combined in strict time order.
Reordercap writes the output capture file in the same format as the input
capture file.
Reordercap is able to detect, read and write the same capture files that
are supported by
Wireshark. The input file doesn't need a specific
filename extension; the file format and an optional gzip compression will be
detected automatically. Near the beginning of the DESCRIPTION section of
wireshark(1) or
<
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/wireshark.html> is a detailed
description of the way
Wireshark handles this, which is the same way
reordercap handles this.
OPTIONS¶
- -n
- When the -n option is used, reordercap will not write out
the output file if it finds that the input file is already in order.
- -v
- Print the version and exit.
SEE ALSO¶
pcap(3),
wireshark(1),
tshark(1),
dumpcap(1),
editcap(1),
mergecap(1),
text2pcap(1),
pcap-filter(7) or
tcpdump(8)
NOTES¶
Reordercap is part of the
Wireshark distribution. The latest
version of
Wireshark can be found at <
https://www.wireshark.org>.
It may make sense to move this functionality into
editcap, or perhaps
mergecap, in which case
reordercap could be retired.
HTML versions of the Wireshark project man pages are available at:
<
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages>.
AUTHORS¶
Original Author
-------- ------
Martin Mathieson <martin.r.mathieson[AT]googlemail.com>