NAME

       reordercap - Reorder input file by timestamp into output file

SYNOPSIS

       reordercap [ -n ] [ -v ] <infile> <outfile>

DESCRIPTION

       Reordercap is a program that reads an input capture file and rewrites the frames to an output capture
       file, but with the frames sorted by increasing timestamp.

       This functionality may be useful when capture files have been created by combining frames from more than
       one well-synchronised source, but the frames have not been combined in strict time order.

       Reordercap writes the output capture file in the same format as the input capture file.

       Reordercap is able to detect, read and write the same capture files that are supported by Wireshark.  The
       input file doesn't need a specific filename extension; the file format and an optional gzip compression
       will be detected automatically.  Near the beginning of the DESCRIPTION section of wireshark(1) or
       <https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/wireshark.html> is a detailed description of the way Wireshark
       handles this, which is the same way reordercap handles this.

OPTIONS

       -n  When  the -n option is used, reordercap will not write out the output file if it finds that the input
           file is already in order.

       -v  Print the version and exit.

SEE ALSO

       pcap(3), wireshark(1), tshark(1), dumpcap(1), editcap(1), mergecap(1),  text2pcap(1),  pcap-filter(7)  or
       tcpdump(8)

NOTES

       Reordercap  is  part  of  the  Wireshark  distribution.   The latest version of Wireshark can be found at
       <https://www.wireshark.org>.

       It may make sense to move this functionality into editcap, or perhaps mergecap, in which case  reordercap
       could be retired.

       HTML     versions     of     the     Wireshark     project     man     pages     are     available    at:
       <https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages>.

AUTHORS

         Original Author
         -------- ------
         Martin Mathieson             <martin.r.mathieson[AT]googlemail.com>

2.6.10                                             2019-09-05                                      REORDERCAP(1)