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

[John Hawkinson <jhawk () mit edu>]

David Young <dyoung () pobox com> wrote on Wed, 26 Mar 2003
at 12:57:38 -0600 in <20030326185738.GA7131 () che onthejob net>:

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

As discussed on this list earlier this year,

  tcpdump -w - | ( gzip > foo&)

is necessary to allow ^C-ing of tcpdump without gzip dying, in many
shells.

--jhawk
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