tshark -G doesn’t work with profiles?

Question

Hi all, I'm not sure if that's a bug or something I'm doing wrong, and will appreciate your help. I'm trying to get the list of ports which are decoded as http under the profile "myprofile". If I try doing:

tshark.exe -G decodes -C myprofile | grep http

I get the default profile's decoding list. If however I try

tshark.exe -C myprofile -G decodes | grep http

I get tshark's help page. Any idea how to get the list of ports I'm looking for?

Accepted Answer

What you are trying to do is not currently supported. As far as I can tell, only the default profile's decoding list will be returned regardless of a profile being specified or not.

Moreover, at present, it is expected that if the -G option is specified, then it must be the very first option; otherwise it will appear as an invalid option, which is what you encountered in your second attempt as:

tshark.exe -C myprofile -G decodes | grep http

... and because it's treated as an invalid option, you are "treated" to the tshark usage output.

Anyway, if you desire this functionality, I would suggest filing a bug report for it here.