Jason McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > then i guess i would propose doing exactly that: removing the bulk of > the text describing primitives and qualifiers and leave a pointer to > pcap-filter.3. we could leave a brief description of the main > qualifiers, and perhaps just a list of valid keywords for the other > primitives.
I think that will be very annoying. When I want to use tcpdump, I don't want to go reading a manual page which isn't called tcpdump. Why should people need to jump another step. Why should the tcpdump option become just a stub about the getopt options. I believe most people run 'man tcpdump' not to read about the getopt options, but to remind themselves of the pcap grammar they are about to use. Making them run the man command twice is inserting a distraction into the process. I recognize the tcpdump manual page doesn't describe the full grammer, but it is still useful as-is.
