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pcapfix — Repair damaged or corrupted PCAP and PcapNG files. More information: <https://f00l.de/pcapfix/>.

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Problem

How to use the pcapfix command: Repair damaged or corrupted PCAP and PcapNG files. More information: <https://f00l.de/pcapfix/>.

Solution

pcapfix — Repair damaged or corrupted PCAP and PcapNG files. More information: <https://f00l.de/pcapfix/>.

Repair a PCAP/PCapNG file (Note: For PCAP files, only the first 262144 bytes of each packet are scanned):
pcapfix {{path/to/file.pcapng}}


Repair an entire PCAP file:
pcapfix --deep-scan {{path/to/file.pcap}}


Repair a PCAP/PcapNG file and write the repaired file to the specified location:
pcapfix --outfile {{path/to/repaired.pcap}} {{path/to/file.pcap}}


Treat the specified file as a PcapNG file, ignoring automatic recognition:
pcapfix --pcapng {{path/to/file.pcapng}}


Repair a file and show the process in detail:
pcapfix --verbose {{path/to/file.pcap}}

Code Snippets

Repair a PCAP/PCapNG file (Note: For PCAP files, only the first 262144 bytes of each packet are scanned)

pcapfix {{path/to/file.pcapng}}

Repair an entire PCAP file

pcapfix --deep-scan {{path/to/file.pcap}}

Repair a PCAP/PcapNG file and write the repaired file to the specified location

pcapfix --outfile {{path/to/repaired.pcap}} {{path/to/file.pcap}}

Treat the specified file as a PcapNG file, ignoring automatic recognition

pcapfix --pcapng {{path/to/file.pcapng}}

Repair a file and show the process in detail

pcapfix --verbose {{path/to/file.pcap}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/pcapfix

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