<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>captype - The Wireshark Network Analyzer 3.0.9</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="ws.css" type="text/css" /> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rev="made" href="mailto:root@localhost" /> </head> <body> <h1 id="NAME">NAME</h1> <p>captype - Prints the types of capture files</p> <h1 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h1> <p><b>capinfos</b> <<i>infile</i>> <i>...</i></p> <h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1> <p><b>Captypes</b> is a program that opens one or more capture files and prints the capture file type of each <<i>infile</i>>.</p> <p><b>Capinfos</b> is able to detect and read the same capture files that are supported by <b>Wireshark</b>. The input files don't need a specific filename extension; the file format and an optional gzip compression will be automatically detected. Near the beginning of the DESCRIPTION section of wireshark(1) or <a href="https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/wireshark.html">https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/wireshark.html</a> is a detailed description of the way <b>Wireshark</b> handles this, which is the same way <b>Capinfos</b> handles this.</p> <h1 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h1> <p>pcap(3), wireshark(1), mergecap(1), editcap(1), tshark(1), dumpcap(1), capinfos(1), pcap-filter(7) or tcpdump(8)</p> <h1 id="NOTES">NOTES</h1> <p><b>Captype</b> is part of the <b>Wireshark</b> distribution. The latest version of <b>Wireshark</b> can be found at <a href="https://www.wireshark.org">https://www.wireshark.org</a>.</p> <p>HTML versions of the Wireshark project man pages are available at: <a href="https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages">https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages</a>.</p> <h1 id="AUTHORS">AUTHORS</h1> <pre><code> Original Author -------- ------ Ian Schorr <ian[AT]ianschorr.com> Contributors ------------ Gerald Combs <gerald[AT]wireshark.org> Jim Young <jyoung[AT]gsu.edu></code></pre> </body> </html>