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lua_scriptnum:argument

asked 2019-06-19 13:08:42 +0000

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My lua script works more or less. Now, I want to use it to write some of the extracted data to a XML file. I want to use the same script file, so I decided to test if there is argument send to the script.

  1. If yes, this means the script is called from command line with tshark, and then I can write specific data.
  2. If no, this means it is call from Wireshark so I wiil not record XML file this time.

My problem is that when I call from command line with :

tshark -r test_210.pcapng -Y tgip -q > test.txt -X lua_script1:arg1 -X lua_script2:arg2

The arguments are not seen by the script, I suppose it is because I don't use -X option. With :

tshark -r test_210.pcapng -X lua_script:Gip.lua -Q  -X lua_script1:arg1 -X lua_script2:arg2

I have an error : Gip.lua:34: bad argument #2 to 'Proto' (Proto_new: there cannot be two protocols with the same description) I suppose it is because the script is all ready loaded, and I call it again with -X.

Do you any idea to solve this ?

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answered 2019-06-19 13:24:58 +0000

grahamb gravatar image

updated 2019-06-19 13:27:43 +0000

tshark -r test_210.pcapng -X lua_script:Gip.lua -Q -X lua_script1:arg1 -X lua_script2:arg2

I don't think this follows the rules for passing arguments to a lua script. From the tshark man page:

lua_script:lua_script_filename tells TShark to load the given script in addition to the default Lua scripts.

lua_scriptnum:argument tells TShark to pass the given argument to the lua script identified by 'num', which is the number indexed order of the 'lua_script' command. For example, if only one script was loaded with '-X lua_script:my.lua', then '-X lua_script1:foo' will pass the string 'foo' to the 'my.lua' script. If two scripts were loaded, such as '-X lua_script:my.lua' and '-X lua_script:other.lua' in that order, then a '-X lua_script2:bar' would pass the string 'bar' to the second lua script, namely 'other.lua'.

So you have one script file, loaded with with -X:lua_script:Gip.lua, this is script number 1 and both arguments should be in the form of -X lua_script1:argxxx.

There is however simpler method of determining if the script is being run with Wireshark or not, gui_enabled().

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  • Thanks a lot , I had misread the documentation. Your comment on lua_script1 is interresting and relevant.
    • Sure gui_enabled() is much more simpler.I do not know .
Harvey gravatar imageHarvey ( 2019-06-19 13:37:48 +0000 )edit

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There is a lot of great information in the Wireshark Lua API documentation.

grahamb gravatar imagegrahamb ( 2019-06-19 13:41:41 +0000 )edit

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