Re: gzip and tcpdump...

[John Hawkinson <jhawk () mit edu>]

Guy Harris <guy () netapp com> wrote on Wed, 26 Feb 2003
at 13:55:17 -0800 in <20030226135517.C28927 () cranford netapp com>:

> > tcpdump -w - | gzip -c > foo.tcpdump.gz
>
> ...although if you ^C out of the tcpdump run, it also ^C's out of the
> gzip run, and, at least the one time I tried that, the resulting gzipped
> file was corrupt.

tcpdump -w - | ( gzip > foo&)

appears to work fine, at least for me. Perhaps this should go in the
EXAMPLES section of the manpage and then we're done?

--jhawk
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