captype(1) — Linux manual page

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | DIAGNOSTIC OPTIONS | SEE ALSO | NOTES | AUTHORS

CAPTYPE(1)                                                     CAPTYPE(1)

NAME         top

       captype - Prints the types of capture files

SYNOPSIS         top

       captype <infile> ...

       captype -h|--help

       captype -v|--version

DESCRIPTION         top

       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.

OPTIONS         top

       -h|--help
           Print the version number and options and exit.

       -v|--version
           Print the full version information and exit.

DIAGNOSTIC OPTIONS         top

       --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.

SEE ALSO         top

       pcap(3), wireshark(1), mergecap(1), editcap(1), tshark(1),
       dumpcap(1), capinfos(1), pcap-filter(7) or tcpdump(8)

NOTES         top

       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.

AUTHORS         top

       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
       that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
       the repository was 2025-08-11.) If you discover any rendering
       problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
       a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
       corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
       (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       [email protected]

                                2025-03-07                     CAPTYPE(1)

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