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Re: A new feature request - gzip compression while using -w option

From: David Young <dyoung () pobox com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:57:38 -0600

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:40:44PM +1100, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote:

I am wondering if there a possibility of -g (for gzip) which will work 
together with -w option in writing the file to the disk using gzip 
compression.


No command-line option is necessary.  Use a pipe: tcpdump -w - | gzip.

Dave

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