https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5501
--- Comment #2 from Chris Welsh <rednectar.ch...@gmail.com> 2010-12-22 20:50:19 PST --- (In reply to comment #1) > OS X GUI applications don't take that sort of command-line option. > > In addition, as Wireshark is, even on OS X, an X11-based app, the OS X binary > distribution wraps it in a wrapper program that's an OS X GUI app binary. > /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS/Wireshark is that binary; it is > *not* the Wireshark binary itself. > > The Wireshark binary is in > /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/Resources/bin/wireshark-bin, but it's not > runnable from there. To be able to run Wireshark from the command line, you > need to install the wrapper scripts in, for example, /usr/local/bin - when the > dmg is opened, it has the "Wireshark" item to drag to /Applications (a > symbolic > link for which is also in the top-level directory of the dmg), and it also has > a "Read me first" file and a "Utilities" folder. Open the "Utilities" folder, > and it has a "Command Line" folder. Open the "Command Line" folder and drag > everything in it to /usr/local/bin (or copy them from the command line if you > want). With that done, /usr/local/bin/wireshark is the script to run > Wireshark > from the command line: > > /usr/local/bin/wireshark -r /Sources/Captures/GNS3/SW1_to_SW2.cap > > (or, if /usr/local/bin is in your path, just > > wireshark -r /Sources/Captures/GNS3/SW1_to_SW2.cap > > and you can also leave the "-r" out. > > Alternatively, for files with extensions for which an application has been > registered, the "open" command can be used to open the file from the command > line. Once you've installed Wireshark from the dmg, you could, for example, > do > > open /Sources/Captures/GNS3/SW1_to_SW2.cap (In reply to comment #1) Guy - thanks so much. I've posted a link to this reply on GNS3.net so others can read it - to think that in the end all I had to do to get Wireshark launched with the required file opened was simply "open <filename>". Too easy. Be assured I really appreciate the time you took to answer this, and I've learned a few other morsels about OSX into the bargain. Thanks again. CW > OS X GUI applications don't take that sort of command-line option. > > In addition, as Wireshark is, even on OS X, an X11-based app, the OS X binary > distribution wraps it in a wrapper program that's an OS X GUI app binary. > /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS/Wireshark is that binary; it is > *not* the Wireshark binary itself. > > The Wireshark binary is in > /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/Resources/bin/wireshark-bin, but it's not > runnable from there. To be able to run Wireshark from the command line, you > need to install the wrapper scripts in, for example, /usr/local/bin - when the > dmg is opened, it has the "Wireshark" item to drag to /Applications (a > symbolic > link for which is also in the top-level directory of the dmg), and it also has > a "Read me first" file and a "Utilities" folder. Open the "Utilities" folder, > and it has a "Command Line" folder. Open the "Command Line" folder and drag > everything in it to /usr/local/bin (or copy them from the command line if you > want). With that done, /usr/local/bin/wireshark is the script to run > Wireshark > from the command line: > > /usr/local/bin/wireshark -r /Sources/Captures/GNS3/SW1_to_SW2.cap > > (or, if /usr/local/bin is in your path, just > > wireshark -r /Sources/Captures/GNS3/SW1_to_SW2.cap > > and you can also leave the "-r" out. > > Alternatively, for files with extensions for which an application has been > registered, the "open" command can be used to open the file from the command > line. Once you've installed Wireshark from the dmg, you could, for example, > do > > open /Sources/Captures/GNS3/SW1_to_SW2.cap -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-bugs mailing list <wireshark-bugs@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-bugs Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-bugs mailto:wireshark-bugs-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe