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#  ovs-pcap(1) — Linux manual page

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    _ovs-pcap_(1)                Open vSwitch Manual               _ovs-pcap_(1)
    

##  NAME  top

    
    
           ovs-pcap - print packets from a pcap file as hex
    

##  SYNOPSIS  top

    
    
           **ovs-pcap** _file_
    
           Common options:
                  [**-h** | **--help**] [**-V** | **--version**]
    

##  DESCRIPTION  top

    
    
           The **ovs-pcap** program reads the pcap _file_ named on the command
           line and prints each packet's contents as a sequence of hex
           digits on a line of its own.  This format is suitable for use
           with the **ofproto/trace** command supported by [ovs-vswitchd(8)](../man8/ovs-vswitchd.8.html).
    

##  OPTIONS  top

    
    
           **-h**
           **--help** Prints a brief help message to the console.
    
           **-V**
           **--version**
                  Prints version information to the console.
    

##  SEE ALSO  top

    
    
           [ovs-vswitchd(8)](../man8/ovs-vswitchd.8.html), [ovs-tcpundump(1)](../man1/ovs-tcpundump.1.html), [tcpdump(8)](../man8/tcpdump.8.html), **wireshark**(8).
    

##  COLOPHON  top

    
    
           This page is part of the _Open vSwitch_ (a distributed virtual
           multilayer switch) project.  Information about the project can be
           found at â¨<http://openvswitch.org/>â©.  If you have a bug report for
           this manual page, send it to bugs@openvswitch.org.  This page was
           obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
           â¨<https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs.git>â© on 2023-12-22.  (At that
           time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
           repository was 2023-12-21.)  If you discover any rendering
           problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there
           is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
           corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
           (which is _not_ part of the original manual page), send a mail to
           man-pages@man7.org
    
    Open vSwitch                     3.2.90                      _ovs-pcap_(1)
    

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Pages that refer to this page: [ ovs-tcpundump(1) ](../man1/ovs-
tcpundump.1.html) , [ ovs-tcpdump(8) ](../man8/ovs-tcpdump.8.html) , [ ovs-
vswitchd(8) ](../man8/ovs-vswitchd.8.html)

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