Re: forces (and sctp) patch

[Darren Reed <Darren.Reed () Sun COM>]

On 11/01/2010 1:29 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> ...
> I was initially concerned about the output with -v, as it is multiline,
> and I think that without -v, one packet should occupy one line.
> This makes postprocessing easier, and certainly makes grep easier.
> Maybe we need another option, "--human"...
>
> With -v, the ip printer now starts a new line before the protocol.
> I am wondering if this was a wise change to have made....  Comments?
>    

Well, it gets in the way of all types of things, for example:

tcpdump-v -i foo.cap | egrep pattern | wc -l

I think the behaviour should be the reverse of the -g in Mac OS X
and that is it should be necessary to use some new command line
option to force tcpdump to insert new lines between things.

Darren

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