RE: listing all devs

["Fulvio Risso" <fulvio.risso () polito it>]

Hi.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tcpdump-workers () sandelman ottawa on ca
> [mailto:owner-tcpdump-workers () sandelman ottawa on ca]On Behalf Of Gisle
> Vanem
> Sent: giovedì 15 maggio 2003 13.18
> To: tcpdump
> Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] listing all devs
>
>
> "David Young" <dyoung () pobox com> said:
> >   ? is a wildcard in most UNIX shells. Operators prefer not to have to
> >   escape characters in routine commands.
>
> It's a wildcard in Windows/OS too? It doesn't stop us from using
> it for other things than filespecs. Do toy mean the shell or crt will
> glob an arg like "file://?"
>
> >   What if a capture file contains the character '?' ?
>
> Doesn't matter if readdir() will find it and the file is longer than "?".
> Is it even possible to name a file "?". ?
>
> >   To list capture files in a directory, why not use the appropriate
> >   combination of ls, find, and file (or whichever the equivalent is in
> >   Windows), instead of tcpdump?
>
> It would not be clean from a bunch of '*.cap', '*.dump', '*.trace'
> etc. files which are libpcap capture files. My idea was to open
> all files in a dir and look for the tcpdump signature.
>
> --gv

When you wants to list the network adapters you have little choice. All the
adapters will be listed.
I prefer to see the same behaviour on files as well.
If you type

    file://directory_name

all the libpcap files contained into it will be listed.

Cheers,

        fulvio

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