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CAPTYPE(1) CAPTYPE(1)
captype - Prints the types of capture files
captype <infile> ... captype -h|--help captype -v|--version
Captype is a program that opens one or more capture files and prints the capture file type of each <infile>. Captype is able to detect and read the same capture files that are supported by Wireshark. The input files don’t need a specific filename extension; the file format and an optional gzip, zstd or lz4 compression will be automatically detected. 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 Captype handles this.
-h|--help Print the version number and options and exit. -v|--version Print the full version information and exit.
--log-level <level> Set the active log level. Supported levels in lowest to highest order are "noisy", "debug", "info", "message", "warning", "critical", and "error". Messages at each level and higher will be printed, for example "warning" prints "warning", "critical", and "error" messages and "noisy" prints all messages. Levels are case insensitive. --log-fatal <level> Abort the program if any messages are logged at the specified level or higher. For example, "warning" aborts on any "warning", "critical", or "error" messages. --log-domains <list> Only print messages for the specified log domains, e.g. "GUI,Epan,sshdump". List of domains must be comma-separated. Can be negated with "!" as the first character (inverts the match). --log-debug <list> Force the specified domains to log at the "debug" level. List of domains must be comma-separated. Can be negated with "!" as the first character (inverts the match). --log-noisy <list> Force the specified domains to log at the "noisy" level. List of domains must be comma-separated. Can be negated with "!" as the first character (inverts the match). --log-fatal-domains <list> Abort the program if any messages are logged for the specified log domains. List of domains must be comma-separated. --log-file <path> Write log messages and stderr output to the specified file.
pcap(3), wireshark(1), mergecap(1), editcap(1), tshark(1), dumpcap(1), capinfos(1), pcap-filter(7) or tcpdump(8)
Captype is part of the Wireshark distribution. The latest version of Wireshark can be found at https://www.wireshark.org. HTML versions of the Wireshark project man pages are available at https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages.
Original Author
Ian Schorr <ian[AT]ianschorr.com>
Contributors
Gerald Combs <gerald[AT]wireshark.org>
Jim Young <jyoung[AT]gsu.edu>.SH COLOPHON This page is part of the
wireshark (Interactively dump and analyze network traffic)
project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://www.wireshark.org/⟩. If you have a bug report for this
manual page, see
⟨https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues⟩. This page was
obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At
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2025-03-07 CAPTYPE(1)
Pages that refer to this page: capinfos(1)