D.5. capinfos: Print information about capture files
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## D.5. capinfos: Print information about capture files

Included with Wireshark is a small utility called capinfos, which is a command-line utility to print information about binary capture files.

Example D.2. Help information available from capinfos

    $ capinfos -h
    Capinfos 0.99.6
    Prints information about capture files.
    See http://www.wireshark.org for more information.

    Usage: capinfos [-t] [-c] [-s] [-d] [-u] [-a] [-e] [-y]
                    [-i] [-z] [-h] <capfile>
      where -t display the capture type of <capfile>
            -c count the number of packets
            -s display the size of the file
            -d display the total length of all packets in the file
               (in bytes)
            -u display the capture duration (in seconds)
            -a display the capture start time
            -e display the capture end time
            -y display average data rate (in bytes)
            -i display average data rate (in bits)
            -z display average packet size (in bytes)
            -h produces this help listing.

                If no data flags are given, default is to display all statistics

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