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Appendix D. Related command line
tools
D.1. Introduction
Besides the Wireshark GUI application, there are some command line tools which can be helpful for doing
some more specialized things. These tools will be described in this chapter.
D.2. tshark: Terminal-based Wireshark
TShark is a terminal oriented version of Wireshark designed for capturing and displaying packets when
an interactive user interface isn't necessary or available. It supports the same options as wireshark. For
more information on tshark, see the manual pages (man tshark).