Testing my own rules/signatures on pcap file

[Beenish Raza <beenish.raza () hotmail com>]

I have a set of rules in a text file and I want to check if the given pcap file contains any signatures/rules from 
those text file of rules.
I have run this command to use pcap file
snort -r    trace.pcap
but how do I specifiy the rules file which I want to use?
Secondly, is there any way that I can generate a pcap file from a given ruleset?


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